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title: Buh Wolf say him gwine see fuh ehself wuh Buh Rabbit duh do, an wuh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf say him gwine see fuh ehself wuh Buh Rabbit duh do, an wuh plan eh fix fuh ketch de Groun-mole. Who acts: Buh, gwine, Rabbit duh, wuh plan eh. 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 t
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 59

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Buh Wolf say him gwine see fuh ehself wuh Buh Rabbit duh do, an wuh plan eh fix fuh ketch de Groun-mole.

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**Who acts:** Buh, gwine, Rabbit duh, wuh plan eh · **What happens:** say, see, do, fix · **To what, where:** dat, ehself, ketch · **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 (Buh, gwine, Rabbit duh, wuh plan 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:pg76586:6:59
# text = Buh Wolf say him gwine see fuh ehself wuh Buh Rabbit duh do, an wuh plan eh fix fuh ketch de Groun-mole.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
8	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
9	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	duh	duh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
21	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	de	de	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	Groun	Groun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh | dat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | gwine | ehself |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ehself=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | present | Rabbit duh |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fix** | infinitive | a wuh plan eh | ketch |  |  |  | de Groun mole | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ketch=Patient |

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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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