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title: Den Buh Wolf hab one nice bed mek up fuh Buh Rabbit, an eh tell eh w… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Wolf hab one nice bed mek up fuh Buh Rabbit, an eh tell eh wife fuh feed um well. Who acts: Den, Buh Rabbit. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 50

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Den Buh Wolf hab one nice bed mek up fuh Buh Rabbit, an eh tell eh wife fuh feed um well.

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**Who acts:** Den, Buh Rabbit · **What happens:** mek up, feed · **To what, where:** um

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, Buh Rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:6:50
# text = Den Buh Wolf hab one nice bed mek up fuh Buh Rabbit, an eh tell eh wife fuh feed um well.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	mek	mek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
19	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
20	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mek up** | infinitive | Den  hab |  |  |  |  | one nice bed *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feed** | present | Buh Rabbit  a eh eh wife | um |  |  |  | well *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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