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title: Buh Rabbit an Buh Wolf come topper nough er Cooter nes, an dem gedde… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit an Buh Wolf come topper nough er Cooter nes, an dem gedder de agg an share um equel. Who acts: Rabbit, dem gedder. 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 cla
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 37

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Buh Rabbit an Buh Wolf come topper nough er Cooter nes, an dem gedder de agg an share um equel.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, dem gedder · **What happens:** come, agg · **To what, where:** topper nough, share um

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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, dem gedder), 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:pg76586:9:37
# text = Buh Rabbit an Buh Wolf come topper nough er Cooter nes, an dem gedder de agg an share um equel.
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	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	nough	nough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	er	er	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	nes	ne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	gedder	gedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
17	agg	agg	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	equel	equel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Rabbit | topper nough |  |  |  | er Cooter nes; a Buh Wolf *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nough=Theme |
| 2 | **agg** | gerund | a dem gedder *not said here* | a share um |  |  |  | equel *property* | 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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