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title: Buh Rabbit so skade eh furgit fuh lie, an Buh Wolf mek um confess eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit so skade eh furgit fuh lie, an Buh Wolf mek um confess eh yent know how fuh ketch Groun-mole, dat eh nebber did kill none, an dat eh bin lib offer Buh Wolf bittle ebber sence eh leff. Who acts: Wolf um, yent, nebber, eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the verna
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 68

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Buh Rabbit so skade eh furgit fuh lie, an Buh Wolf mek um confess eh yent know how fuh ketch Groun-mole, dat eh nebber did kill none, an dat eh bin lib offer Buh Wolf bittle ebber sence eh leff.

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**Who acts:** Wolf um, yent, nebber, eh · **What happens:** confess, know, kill, offer · **To what, where:** eh, fuh ketch, none, furgit fuh lie · **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 (Wolf um, yent, nebber, 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:pg76586:6:68
# text = Buh Rabbit so skade eh furgit fuh lie, an Buh Wolf mek um confess eh yent know how fuh ketch Groun-mole, dat eh nebber did kill none, an dat eh bin lib offer Buh Wolf bittle ebber sence eh leff.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	skade	skade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	eh	eh	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
6	furgit	furgit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	confess	confess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	Groun	Groun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
31	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
34	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
35	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
37	lib	lib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
39	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	bittle	bittle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	ebber	ebb	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	41	amod	_	_
43	sence	sence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confess** | present | a Wolf um | eh |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eh=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | present | yent | fuh ketch and dat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **kill** | past · do-support | nebber | none |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme |
| 4 | **offer** |  | eh |  |  |  |  | Wolf bittle *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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