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title: Arter dat Buh Porpus swim back ter de bank an Buh Rabbit tek off de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arter dat Buh Porpus swim back ter de bank an Buh Rabbit tek off de grape-wine from roun eh neck, an dem leff Buh Wolf een de water fuh shark an alligatur fuh eat. Who acts: Arter, Buh, alligatur fuh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 11

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Arter dat Buh Porpus swim back ter de bank an Buh Rabbit tek off de grape-wine from roun eh neck, an dem leff Buh Wolf een de water fuh shark an alligatur fuh eat.

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**Who acts:** Arter, Buh, alligatur fuh · **What happens:** dat, swim back, eat · **To what, where:** ter de bank, water fuh shark

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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 (Arter, Buh, alligatur fuh), 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:pg76586:8:11
# text = Arter dat Buh Porpus swim back ter de bank an Buh Rabbit tek off de grape-wine from roun eh neck, an dem leff Buh Wolf een de water fuh shark an alligatur fuh eat.
1	Arter	Arter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dat	dat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	compound	_	_
16	grape	grape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
27	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
28	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	list	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	conj	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	alligatur	alligatur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dat** | past | Arter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swim back** | present | Buh | ter de bank |  |  |  | a Buh Rabbit tek and off de grape wine from roun eh neck and a dem leff and water fuh shark *parataxis* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bank=Trajectory |
| 3 | **eat** | present | a alligatur fuh | water fuh shark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=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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