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title: Buh Wolf ax Buh Rabbit way eh git de fish, an Buh Rabbit tell um say… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf ax Buh Rabbit way eh git de fish, an Buh Rabbit tell um say him fren, Buh Porpus, blan ketch um fur um, an dat him hab er pintment dat berry day wid Buh Porpus. Who acts: git, berry day. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Ope
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 94

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Buh Wolf ax Buh Rabbit way eh git de fish, an Buh Rabbit tell um say him fren, Buh Porpus, blan ketch um fur um, an dat him hab er pintment dat berry day wid Buh Porpus.

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**Who acts:** git, berry day · **What happens:** tell, say, wi · **To what, where:** um, git, Buh, Rabbit way · **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 (git, berry day), 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:pg76586:7:94
# text = Buh Wolf ax Buh Rabbit way eh git de fish, an Buh Rabbit tell um say him fren, Buh Porpus, blan ketch um fur um, an dat him hab er pintment dat berry day wid Buh Porpus.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	de	de	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	fren	fren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	blan	blan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
25	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	er	er	PUNCT	GW	_	39	punct	_	_
35	pintment	pintment	X	NN	_	34	goeswith	_	_
36	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
40	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | eh git de fish and a Buh Rabbit | um |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | eh git de fish and a Buh Rabbit *not said here* | git |  |  |  | fren and blan fur um and a dat  git *obj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme fren=Manner |
| 3 | **wi** | past | berry day | Buh |  |  |  | hab *compound* | tree rules |

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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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