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title: Wen dem git ter de ribber bank, day was Buh Porpus duh wait fur Buh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen dem git ter de ribber bank, day was Buh Porpus duh wait fur Buh Rabbit. Who acts: Wen git ter, Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8, 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 8, sentence 1

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Wen dem git ter de ribber bank, day was Buh Porpus duh wait fur Buh Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** Wen git ter, Buh · **What happens:** be, wait · **To what, where:** Buh, fur

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen git ter, Buh), 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:pg76586:8:1
# text = Wen dem git ter de ribber bank, day was Buh Porpus duh wait fur Buh Rabbit.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
6	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Wen git ter and day | Buh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive | Buh | fur |  |  |  | Buh Rabbit *advcl* | 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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