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title: Buh Wolf, him so bex eh git grape wine an eh tie Buh Rabbit han an f… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf, him so bex eh git grape wine an eh tie Buh Rabbit han an foot, an eh lick um tel eh tired. Who acts: bex. 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 69

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Buh Wolf, him so bex eh git grape wine an eh tie Buh Rabbit han an foot, an eh lick um tel eh tired.

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**Who acts:** bex · **What happens:** han · **To what, where:** foot, Buh

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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 (bex), 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:pg76586:6:69
# text = Buh Wolf, him so bex eh git grape wine an eh tie Buh Rabbit han an foot, an eh lick um tel eh tired.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
6	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	grape	grape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tie	tie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	lick	lick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **han** |  | bex eh grape wine | a foot and a eh um tel |  |  |  | a eh tie *nsubj* | 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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