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title: Nobody kin see any Groun-mole wuh Buh Rabbit der ketch, but eh tell… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody kin see any Groun-mole wuh Buh Rabbit der ketch, but eh tell Buh Wolf wife dat eh bin er kill heap er dem ebry day, an dat eh gwine soon clear de fiel. Who acts: Nobody kin, eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 56

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Nobody kin see any Groun-mole wuh Buh Rabbit der ketch, but eh tell Buh Wolf wife dat eh bin er kill heap er dem ebry day, an dat eh gwine soon clear de fiel.

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**Who acts:** Nobody kin, eh · **What happens:** see, tell · **To what, where:** Groun mole, Wolf wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Nobody kin, eh), 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:pg76586:6:56
# text = Nobody kin see any Groun-mole wuh Buh Rabbit der ketch, but eh tell Buh Wolf wife dat eh bin er kill heap er dem ebry day, an dat eh gwine soon clear de fiel.
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	compound	_	_
2	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
5	Groun	Groun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	dat	dat	X	GW	_	16	ccomp	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
26	er	er	X	GW	_	20	goeswith	_	_
27	dem	dem	X	NN	_	26	goeswith	_	_
28	ebry	ebry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
35	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
36	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
37	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	38	compound	_	_
38	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Nobody kin | any Groun mole |  |  |  | Rabbit der ketch *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mole=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | eh |  | Wolf wife |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=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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