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title: Arter Buh Wolf bin lick Buh Rabbit an trow um een de brier patch cas… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arter Buh Wolf bin lick Buh Rabbit an trow um een de brier patch case eh ketch um der tief water outer him spring, Buh Rabbit faid fuh meet Buh Wolf, an him leff an gone buil ehself new house een Buh Bear settlement. Who acts: Arter, Buh, gone buil. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast,
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 121

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Arter Buh Wolf bin lick Buh Rabbit an trow um een de brier patch case eh ketch um der tief water outer him spring, Buh Rabbit faid fuh meet Buh Wolf, an him leff an gone buil ehself new house een Buh Bear settlement.

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**Who acts:** Arter, Buh, gone buil · **What happens:** lick, trow, meet, house · **To what, where:** Buh Rabbit, um, Buh

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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, gone buil), 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:pg76586:8:121
# text = Arter Buh Wolf bin lick Buh Rabbit an trow um een de brier patch case eh ketch um der tief water outer him spring, Buh Rabbit faid fuh meet Buh Wolf, an him leff an gone buil ehself new house een Buh Bear settlement.
1	Arter	Arter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	lick	lick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	trow	trow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
13	brier	brier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
16	eh	eh	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
19	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
20	tief	tief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
24	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	faid	faid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	list	_	_
29	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
30	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
31	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	compound	_	_
36	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	buil	buil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
40	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
43	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	flat	_	_
44	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
45	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lick** | present | Arter | Buh Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent rabbit=Source |
| 2 | **trow** | present | Arter *not said here* | um |  |  |  | de patch case *obj*; eh ketch um *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | infinitive | Buh | Buh |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buh=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **house** |  | a gone buil |  |  |  |  | ehself *nsubj* | 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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