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title: Den Buh Rabbit, him say: “Leh we hab some fun, an see who kin pull d… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Rabbit, him say: “Leh we hab some fun, an see who kin pull de strongis: Buh Porpus genst me an Buh Wolf.” Who acts: Den, Leh, Buh. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 3

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Den Buh Rabbit, him say: “Leh we hab some fun, an see who kin pull de strongis: Buh Porpus genst me an Buh Wolf.”

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**Who acts:** Den, Leh, Buh · **What happens:** say, hab, see, pull, genst · **To what, where:** fun, de strongis, Den · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Den, Leh, 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:pg76586:8:3
# text = Den Buh Rabbit, him say: “Leh we hab some fun, an see who kin pull de strongis: Buh Porpus genst me an Buh Wolf.”
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Leh	Leh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hab	hab	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	kin	kin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
19	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	compound	_	_
21	strongis	strongi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	genst	genst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Den  Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hab** *in a quote* | present | Leh | some fun |  |  |  | we *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | Leh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pull** *in a quote* | present |  | de strongis |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strongi=Theme |
| 5 | **genst** *in a quote* | past | Buh | Den  Buh *= den* |  |  |  | a Buh Wolf *obl:unmarked* | 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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