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title: Buh Wolf mek up eh mine dat Buh Rabbit yent do de fus ting een de fi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf mek up eh mine dat Buh Rabbit yent do de fus ting een de fiel. Who acts: Buh, Buh Rabbit yent. 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 63

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Buh Wolf mek up eh mine dat Buh Rabbit yent do de fus ting een de fiel.

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**Who acts:** Buh, Buh Rabbit yent · **What happens:** dat, do · **To what, where:** de fus ting

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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, Buh Rabbit yent), 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:pg76586:6:63
# text = Buh Wolf mek up eh mine dat Buh Rabbit yent do de fus ting een de fiel.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dat	dat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
13	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dat** | past | Buh |  |  |  |  | mine *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | Buh Rabbit yent | de fus ting and de fiel |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ting=Eventuality |

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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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