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title: BUH RABBIT, BUH WOLF, AN BUH POSSUM. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: BUH RABBIT, BUH WOLF, AN BUH POSSUM. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, 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 9, sentence 34

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BUH RABBIT, BUH WOLF, AN BUH POSSUM.

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**To what, where:** RABBIT

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg76586:9:34
# text = BUH RABBIT, BUH WOLF, AN BUH POSSUM.
1	BUH	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	RABBIT	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	BUH	BUH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	WOLF	WOLF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	AN	and	CCONJ	CC	Typo=Yes	9	cc	_	_
8	BUH	buh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	POSSUM	possum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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