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title: Buh Rabbit an Buh Porpus done Buh Wolf er mean trick. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit an Buh Porpus done Buh Wolf er mean trick. Who acts: Rabbit. 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 12

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Buh Rabbit an Buh Porpus done Buh Wolf er mean trick.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Buh Wolf

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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 (Rabbit), 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:pg76586:8:12
# text = Buh Rabbit an Buh Porpus done Buh Wolf er mean trick.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Rabbit | Buh Wolf |  |  |  | mean trick *obl:unmarked*; a Buh Porpus *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=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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