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title: One day, Buh Porpus, him bin berry lucky een eh fishin, an eh fetch… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, Buh Porpus, him bin berry lucky een eh fishin, an eh fetch fuh Buh Rabbit mo ner two quart er gannet mullet, and blow um on de bank way Buh Rabbit kin git um dout wet eh foot. Who acts: Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones,
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 83

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One day, Buh Porpus, him bin berry lucky een eh fishin, an eh fetch fuh Buh Rabbit mo ner two quart er gannet mullet, and blow um on de bank way Buh Rabbit kin git um dout wet eh foot.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** bin, blow · **To what, where:** berry, um, bank way, One day

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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:pg76586:7:83
# text = One day, Buh Porpus, him bin berry lucky een eh fishin, an eh fetch fuh Buh Rabbit mo ner two quart er gannet mullet, and blow um on de bank way Buh Rabbit kin git um dout wet eh foot.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	flat	_	_
9	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	een	een	X	FW	_	13	compound	_	_
12	eh	eh	X	FW	_	13	compound	_	_
13	fishin	fishin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fetch	fetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	vocative	_	_
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	_
24	quart	quart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	gannet	gannet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	mullet	mullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
31	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
37	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	flat	_	_
38	kin	kin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
41	dout	dout	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | Buh | berry |  |  |  | lucky een eh fishin *obl* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent berry=Theme |
| 2 | **blow** | infinitive | Buh *not said here* | um |  | de's bank way |  | dout wet eh foot | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: 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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