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title: Buh Fox, him wrop him head an yez up so nobody kin know um, an eh pa… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fox, him wrop him head an yez up so nobody kin know um, an eh paint eh horse one side white an tarruh side black, an eh tek eh two jug er rum an eh ride ter de camp, an eh do dis es Buh Rabbit bin tell um fuh do. Who acts: Buh, nobody kin, two, dis es. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 69

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Buh Fox, him wrop him head an yez up so nobody kin know um, an eh paint eh horse one side white an tarruh side black, an eh tek eh two jug er rum an eh ride ter de camp, an eh do dis es Buh Rabbit bin tell um fuh do.

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**Who acts:** Buh, nobody kin, two, dis es · **What happens:** wrop, know, jug, tell, do · **To what, where:** de, um, rum, um fuh · **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, nobody kin, two, dis es), 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:pg76586:7:69
# text = Buh Fox, him wrop him head an yez up so nobody kin know um, an eh paint eh horse one side white an tarruh side black, an eh tek eh two jug er rum an eh ride ter de camp, an eh do dis es Buh Rabbit bin tell um fuh do.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wrop	wrop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	compound	_	_
13	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
15	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	white	white	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
33	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nsubj	_	_
35	jug	jug	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
37	rum	rum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
42	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	41	flat:foreign	_	_
43	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
47	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
48	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
50	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	appos	_	_
51	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	flat	_	_
52	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	flat	_	_
53	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
54	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrop** | present | Buh | de |  |  |  | a eh tek *obl*; head *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | nobody kin | um and a eh paint |  |  |  | horse *obl*; one side white a tarruh side *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus |
| 3 | **jug** | present | two | rum |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rum=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | dis es | um fuh |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent fuh=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **do** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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