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title: Buh Rabbit, him yeddy all wuh Buh Fox hab fuh say, an den eh say: “M… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him yeddy all wuh Buh Fox hab fuh say, an den eh say: “Me tell you wuh you do. Who acts: Fox hab fuh, Rabbit, you. 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 cl
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 63

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Buh Rabbit, him yeddy all wuh Buh Fox hab fuh say, an den eh say: “Me tell you wuh you do.

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**Who acts:** Fox hab fuh, Rabbit, you · **What happens:** say, tell, do · **To what, where:** him yeddy, you · **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 (Fox hab fuh, Rabbit, you), 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:pg76586:7:63
# text = Buh Rabbit, him yeddy all wuh Buh Fox hab fuh say, an den eh say: “Me tell you wuh you do.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	compound	_	_
5	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
7	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | all Fox hab fuh | him yeddy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yeddy=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | a den eh *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Rabbit |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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