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title: Buh Lion do es him say, an de nex night, wen Buh Coon, Buh Fox, an B… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Lion do es him say, an de nex night, wen Buh Coon, Buh Fox, an Buh Rabbit gone fuh rob de bank gen, Buh Coon, him walk topper de trap an eh ketch um by eh foot. Who acts: Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, wi
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 44

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Buh Lion do es him say, an de nex night, wen Buh Coon, Buh Fox, an Buh Rabbit gone fuh rob de bank gen, Buh Coon, him walk topper de trap an eh ketch um by eh foot.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** do, say, walk, trap · **To what, where:** es, topper de, eh ketch um · **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:pg76586:7:44
# text = Buh Lion do es him say, an de nex night, wen Buh Coon, Buh Fox, an Buh Rabbit gone fuh rob de bank gen, Buh Coon, him walk topper de trap an eh ketch um by eh foot.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	advmod	_	_
10	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
23	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
24	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
25	rob	Rob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
26	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
31	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
35	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	trap	trap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Buh | es and a nex night  a Buh Rabbit and gone rob bank gen and wen |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh | es and a nex night  a Buh Rabbit and gone rob bank gen and wen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent e=Topic |
| 3 | **walk** | present | Buh | topper de |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme de=Trajectory |
| 4 | **trap** | present | Buh *not said here* | a eh ketch um |  |  |  | by eh foot | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |

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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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