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title: Buh Wolf nebber spicion say Buh Rabbit bin er tell um lie, an eh ten… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf nebber spicion say Buh Rabbit bin er tell um lie, an eh tenk um berry much, an eh gone git de Cooter agg an trow um way. Who acts: Buh nebber spicion, eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, with its dependenc
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 45

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Buh Wolf nebber spicion say Buh Rabbit bin er tell um lie, an eh tenk um berry much, an eh gone git de Cooter agg an trow um way.

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**Who acts:** Buh nebber spicion, eh · **What happens:** say, tell, berry, go, git, trow · **To what, where:** Buh, um lie · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh nebber spicion, eh), 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:pg76586:9:45
# text = Buh Wolf nebber spicion say Buh Rabbit bin er tell um lie, an eh tenk um berry much, an eh gone git de Cooter agg an trow um way.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	spicion	spicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	er	er	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	tenk	tenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	berry	berry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	de	de	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	agg	agg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	trow	trow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	compound	_	_
30	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Buh nebber spicion | Buh |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent buh=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | um lie and a eh tenk um |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient |
| 3 | **berry** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **git** |  | a eh |  |  |  |  | de Cooter agg  a trow um way | tree rules |
| 6 | **trow** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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