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title: Buh Bear, him hab well, an steader Buh Rabbit fine him own water, eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Bear, him hab well, an steader Buh Rabbit fine him own water, eh blan slip ter Buh Bear well an tief water outer um. Who acts: Buh Bear. 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 pragmati
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 122

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Buh Bear, him hab well, an steader Buh Rabbit fine him own water, eh blan slip ter Buh Bear well an tief water outer um.

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**Who acts:** Buh Bear · **What happens:** fine · **To what, where:** 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 (Buh Bear), 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:pg76586:8:122
# text = Buh Bear, him hab well, an steader Buh Rabbit fine him own water, eh blan slip ter Buh Bear well an tief water outer um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	hab	hab	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	2	advmod	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	steader	steader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	fine	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
18	blan	blan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	tief	tief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fine** | past | Buh Bear  buil and a steader |  | Buh |  |  | a tief water outer um *obl*; own water *obj*; blan slip ter *parataxis* | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient water=Asset |

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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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