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title: Buh Rabbit him tell Buh Lion, say him know de man wuh duh rob him ba… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit him tell Buh Lion, say him know de man wuh duh rob him bank, but eh yent want talk eh name, an eh vise Buh Lion fuh set steel trap fuh ketch de tief. Who acts: you, de man, yent. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 43

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Buh Rabbit him tell Buh Lion, say him know de man wuh duh rob him bank, but eh yent want talk eh name, an eh vise Buh Lion fuh set steel trap fuh ketch de tief.

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**Who acts:** you, de man, yent · **What happens:** rabbit, tell, say, know, rob, want · **To what, where:** Buh, talk eh name · **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 (you, de man, 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:pg76586:7:43
# text = Buh Rabbit him tell Buh Lion, say him know de man wuh duh rob him bank, but eh yent want talk eh name, an eh vise Buh Lion fuh set steel trap fuh ketch de tief.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	rabbit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
14	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	rob	rob	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nsubj	_	_
22	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	vise	vise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
30	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
31	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
32	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	_
33	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
36	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	37	discourse	_	_
37	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
38	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	37	flat:foreign	_	_
39	tief	tief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rabbit** | imperative | you *not said here* | Buh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | Buh |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent buh=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | Buh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **rob** | infinitive | de man | Buh |  |  |  | bank *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **want** | present | eh yent | talk eh name |  |  |  | set steel trap *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme trap=Attribute |

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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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