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title: Den dem mek plan lucker dis: Buh Porpus bin fuh come back ter de sam… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den dem mek plan lucker dis: Buh Porpus bin fuh come back ter de same place nex day an leh Buh Rabbit tie grapewine roun um, so Buh Wolf kin pull um outer de water fuh eat um. Who acts: Buh, leh Buh Rabbit, Wolf kin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charl
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 86

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Den dem mek plan lucker dis: Buh Porpus bin fuh come back ter de same place nex day an leh Buh Rabbit tie grapewine roun um, so Buh Wolf kin pull um outer de water fuh eat um.

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**Who acts:** Buh, leh Buh Rabbit, Wolf kin · **What happens:** plan, bin, come back, tie, pull, eat · **To what, where:** Den dem, ter, grapewine roun um, um

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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, leh Buh Rabbit, Wolf kin), 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:pg76586:7:86
# text = Den dem mek plan lucker dis: Buh Porpus bin fuh come back ter de same place nex day an leh Buh Rabbit tie grapewine roun um, so Buh Wolf kin pull um outer de water fuh eat um.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	plan	plan	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	lucker	lucker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	obl	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	leh	leh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	tie	tie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
25	grapewine	grapewine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
34	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	37	compound	_	_
37	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
38	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	39	discourse	_	_
39	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
40	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | present |  | Den dem |  |  |  | lucker dis *obj* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dis=Topic |
| 2 | **bin** | present | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come back** | infinitive | Buh *not said here* | ter |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tie** | present | a leh Buh Rabbit | grapewine roun um |  |  | day |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |
| 5 | **pull** | present | Wolf kin | um |  |  |  | outer de water *obj* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent um=Theme water=Result |
| 6 | **eat** | infinitive | Wolf kin *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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