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title: Buh Rabbit mek um quaintum wid Buh Wolf, an arter er while Buh Wolf… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit mek um quaintum wid Buh Wolf, an arter er while Buh Wolf ax Buh Porpus fuh fine um een fish same luk eh fine Buh Rabbit, an Buh Porpus gree fur do so. Who acts: Rabbit um quaintum, um fish, Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 2

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Buh Rabbit mek um quaintum wid Buh Wolf, an arter er while Buh Wolf ax Buh Porpus fuh fine um een fish same luk eh fine Buh Rabbit, an Buh Porpus gree fur do so.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit um quaintum, um fish, Buh · **What happens:** wi, gree, do · **To what, where:** Buh, fur

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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 um quaintum, um fish, Buh), 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:pg76586:8:2
# text = Buh Rabbit mek um quaintum wid Buh Wolf, an arter er while Buh Wolf ax Buh Porpus fuh fine um een fish same luk eh fine Buh Rabbit, an Buh Porpus gree fur do so.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	quaintum	quaintum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
18	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	_
23	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
24	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	luk	luk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:desc	_	_
26	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
34	gree	gree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
35	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wi** | past | Rabbit um quaintum | Buh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gree** | present | um fish  fine Buh Rabbit  same luk and a Buh Porpus | fur |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present | Buh  Wolf ax |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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