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title: Buh Bear fine dis out, but Buh Rabbit so scheemy Buh Bear couldnt pi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Bear fine dis out, but Buh Rabbit so scheemy Buh Bear couldnt pit eh han topper um fuh ketch um. Who acts: Buh 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 123

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Buh Bear fine dis out, but Buh Rabbit so scheemy Buh Bear couldnt pit eh han topper um fuh ketch um.

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**Who acts:** Buh Rabbit · **What happens:** um · **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 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:pg76586:8:123
# text = Buh Bear fine dis out, but Buh Rabbit so scheemy Buh Bear couldnt pit eh han topper um fuh ketch um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
11	scheemy	scheemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
13	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
21	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **um** |  | Buh Rabbit |  |  |  |  | Buh  scheemy *nsubj*; han topper um *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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