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title: Buh Rabbit an Buh Wolf gone long de ribber bank fuh hunt Cooter agg. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit an Buh Wolf gone long de ribber bank fuh hunt Cooter agg. Who acts: Rabbit. 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 35

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Buh Rabbit an Buh Wolf gone long de ribber bank fuh hunt Cooter agg.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit · **What happens:** go, hunt · **To what, where:** long de ribber bank, Cooter agg

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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: who acts (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:pg76586:9:35
# text = Buh Rabbit an Buh Wolf gone long de ribber bank fuh hunt Cooter agg.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
9	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	agg	agg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle | Rabbit | long de ribber bank |  |  |  | a Buh Wolf *nsubj* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bank=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** | infinitive | Rabbit *not said here* | Cooter agg |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agg=Theme |

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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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