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title: Buh Rabbit notus way Buh Wolf bin trow de agg; an soon es Buh Wolf g… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit notus way Buh Wolf bin trow de agg; an soon es Buh Wolf gone back een him house, Buh Rabbit gedder dem up an tote um off een de bush, an seddown an biggin fuh eat dem dist es saterfy es kin be. Who acts: Wolf bin, es, biggin fuh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 46

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Buh Rabbit notus way Buh Wolf bin trow de agg; an soon es Buh Wolf gone back een him house, Buh Rabbit gedder dem up an tote um off een de bush, an seddown an biggin fuh eat dem dist es saterfy es kin be.

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**Who acts:** Wolf bin, es, biggin fuh · **What happens:** trow, go back, eat · **To what, where:** Rabbit notus way, een house, dist es

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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 (Wolf bin, es, biggin fuh), 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:pg76586:9:46
# text = Buh Rabbit notus way Buh Wolf bin trow de agg; an soon es Buh Wolf gone back een him house, Buh Rabbit gedder dem up an tote um off een de bush, an seddown an biggin fuh eat dem dist es saterfy es kin be.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	trow	trow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
10	agg	agg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	gedder	gedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	tote	tote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
33	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	compound	_	_
34	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	seddown	seddown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	biggin	biggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
42	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	dist	dist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
45	saterfy	saterfy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
47	kin	kin	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trow** | present | Wolf bin | Rabbit notus way |  |  |  | de agg *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go back** | participle | a es | een house |  |  |  | off een  de bush; Rabbit gedder dem up a tote um *obl*; a seddown *obl*; Buh *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | present | a biggin fuh | dist es |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Patient |

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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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