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title: Buh Wolf gone een de edge er de wood, an day eh come pon topper Buh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf gone een de edge er de wood, an day eh come pon topper Buh Rabbit tretch out een er bed wuh eh bin mek outer pine straw onder one tree, fas tersleep. Who acts: Buh, wood, bin. 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 65

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Buh Wolf gone een de edge er de wood, an day eh come pon topper Buh Rabbit tretch out een er bed wuh eh bin mek outer pine straw onder one tree, fas tersleep.

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**Who acts:** Buh, wood, bin · **What happens:** wood, come, tretch out, straw · **To what, where:** pon topper, een er bed, one tree

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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, wood, bin), 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:pg76586:6:65
# text = Buh Wolf gone een de edge er de wood, an day eh come pon topper Buh Rabbit tretch out een er bed wuh eh bin mek outer pine straw onder one tree, fas tersleep.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	amod	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat	_	_
6	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	nsubj	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	tretch	tretch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
25	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
31	onder	onder	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	fas	fa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	compound	_	_
36	tersleep	tersleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wood** |  | Buh |  |  |  |  | gone een edge *nsubj*; a day eh *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | wood and a day eh | pon topper |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location topper=Theme |
| 3 | **tretch out** | infinitive | wood and a day eh *not said here* | een er bed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **straw** |  | eh bin | one tree |  |  |  | mek *nsubj*; fas tersleep *conj* | tree rules |

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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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