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title: Buh Wolf bague Buh Rabbit fuh leh him go long too, an see ef him cou… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf bague Buh Rabbit fuh leh him go long too, an see ef him couldnt mek rangement wid Buh Porpus fuh fine him een fish. Who acts: Buh, ef. 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 pragm
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 95

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Buh Wolf bague Buh Rabbit fuh leh him go long too, an see ef him couldnt mek rangement wid Buh Porpus fuh fine him een fish.

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**Who acts:** Buh, ef · **What happens:** leh, go, see, wi · **To what, where:** fren, Buh · **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, ef), 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:pg76586:7:95
# text = Buh Wolf bague Buh Rabbit fuh leh him go long too, an see ef him couldnt mek rangement wid Buh Porpus fuh fine him een fish.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	bague	bague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	leh	leh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	rangement	rangement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
24	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
26	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leh** | infinitive | Buh  bague | fren |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Buh  bague *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | Buh  bague *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **wi** | past | ef  fren and couldnt | Buh |  |  |  | mek rangement *nsubj* | 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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