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title: Buh Lion, him well please, an him gie order, an hab de ting done jes… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Lion, him well please, an him gie order, an hab de ting done jes es Buh Rabbit bin plan. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 54

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Buh Lion, him well please, an him gie order, an hab de ting done jes es Buh Rabbit bin plan.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** gie, do · **To what, where:** order, 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 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:pg76586:7:54
# text = Buh Lion, him well please, an him gie order, an hab de ting done jes es Buh Rabbit bin plan.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Lion	Lion	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	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
6	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	parataxis	_	_
10	gie	gie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
11	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	jes	j	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	compound	_	_
19	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	_
20	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
21	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gie** | infinitive | Buh  Buh and a hab de ting *not said here* | order |  |  |  | Buh *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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