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title: Buh Rabbit say him willin; so dem finish brukwus an gone fuh meet Bu… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit say him willin; so dem finish brukwus an gone fuh meet Buh Porpus. Who acts: Buh, dem. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 96

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Buh Rabbit say him willin; so dem finish brukwus an gone fuh meet Buh Porpus.

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**Who acts:** Buh, dem · **What happens:** say, finish · **To what, where:** fren, gone fuh meet · **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, dem), 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:pg76586:7:96
# text = Buh Rabbit say him willin; so dem finish brukwus an gone fuh meet Buh Porpus.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	willin	willin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	finish	finish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	brukwus	brukwus	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	meet	meet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
16	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh | fren |  |  |  | willin *obj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme willin=Manner |
| 2 | **finish** | present | dem | a gone fuh meet |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality meet=Eventuality |

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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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