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title: Buh Fox an Buh Rabbit, dem study ober de ting, an dem mek up dem min… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fox an Buh Rabbit, dem study ober de ting, an dem mek up dem mine say ef Buh Lion fine Buh Coon een de trap, eh not only gwine kill Buh Coon, but eh will sen an kill all eh fambly. Who acts: you, mine, ef, eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 47

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Buh Fox an Buh Rabbit, dem study ober de ting, an dem mek up dem mine say ef Buh Lion fine Buh Coon een de trap, eh not only gwine kill Buh Coon, but eh will sen an kill all eh fambly.

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**Who acts:** you, mine, ef, eh · **What happens:** fox, mek up, say, fine, sen · **To what, where:** Buh Rabbit, dem, kill · **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, mine, ef, 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:pg76586:7:47
# text = Buh Fox an Buh Rabbit, dem study ober de ting, an dem mek up dem mine say ef Buh Lion fine Buh Coon een de trap, eh not only gwine kill Buh Coon, but eh will sen an kill all eh fambly.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Fox	fox	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	mek	mek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	fine	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
24	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
25	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	list	_	_
27	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	compound	_	_
28	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
36	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	sen	sen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
42	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	det	_	_
45	eh	eh	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	obj	_	_
46	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fox** | imperative | you *not said here* | a Buh Rabbit and study ober de ting and a dem |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rabbit=Experiencer |
| 2 | **mek up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | dem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | mine | dem *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fine** | past | ef |  |  |  |  | Buh de trap *parataxis* | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sen** | future | eh | a kill |  |  |  | fambly *property* | 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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