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title: Buh Wolf, him no bin know de plan wuh Buh Rabbit aready done fix wid… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf, him no bin know de plan wuh Buh Rabbit aready done fix wid Buh Porpus, an so eh gree ter all wuh Buh Rabbit bin say. Who acts: Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 102

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Buh Wolf, him no bin know de plan wuh Buh Rabbit aready done fix wid Buh Porpus, an so eh gree ter all wuh Buh Rabbit bin say.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** know, do, fix, gree, say · **To what, where:** de plan, Buh · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh), 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:pg76586:7:102
# text = Buh Wolf, him no bin know de plan wuh Buh Rabbit aready done fix wid Buh Porpus, an so eh gree ter all wuh Buh Rabbit bin say.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	aready	aready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	list	_	_
14	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
15	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
16	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	gree	gree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
24	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	obl	_	_
26	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
27	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Buh  wen | de plan |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer plan=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | participle |  | de plan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fix** | infinitive |  | Buh  wid |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent buh=Patient |
| 4 | **gree** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | ter all; eh *compound* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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