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title: Es dem duh gwine Buh Rabbit tell Buh Wolf say Porpus meat berry nice… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Es dem duh gwine Buh Rabbit tell Buh Wolf say Porpus meat berry nice, an eh tink mebbe dem kin ketch Buh Porpus an eat um. Who acts: Es, Buh, eh, mebbe. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 97

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Es dem duh gwine Buh Rabbit tell Buh Wolf say Porpus meat berry nice, an eh tink mebbe dem kin ketch Buh Porpus an eat um.

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**Who acts:** Es, Buh, eh, mebbe, dem kin ketch · **What happens:** tell, say, tink, ketch, eat · **To what, where:** Porpus meat berry, um · **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 (Es, Buh, eh, mebbe), 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:pg76586:7:97
# text = Es dem duh gwine Buh Rabbit tell Buh Wolf say Porpus meat berry nice, an eh tink mebbe dem kin ketch Buh Porpus an eat um.
1	Es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tink	tink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	mebbe	mebbe	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	nsubj	_	_
20	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	kin	kin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
24	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Es  dem gwine |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh | Porpus meat berry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent berry=Topic |
| 3 | **tink** | infinitive | a eh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ketch** |  | mebbe |  |  |  |  | Buh *appos* | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | present | dem kin ketch *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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