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title: Eh so happne say Buh Wolf come pon topper Buh Rabbit duh eat dem Coo… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh so happne say Buh Wolf come pon topper Buh Rabbit duh eat dem Cooter agg, an eh see right off how Buh Rabbit done fool um. Who acts: happne, Buh, Buh Rabbit, dem. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, with its depende
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 47

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Eh so happne say Buh Wolf come pon topper Buh Rabbit duh eat dem Cooter agg, an eh see right off how Buh Rabbit done fool um.

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**Who acts:** happne, Buh, Buh Rabbit, dem · **What happens:** say, come, eat, see · **To what, where:** Eh, pon topper · **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 (happne, Buh, Buh Rabbit, dem), 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:pg76586:9:47
# text = Eh so happne say Buh Wolf come pon topper Buh Rabbit duh eat dem Cooter agg, an eh see right off how Buh Rabbit done fool um.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	happne	happne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	agg	agg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	right	right	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
24	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	done	done	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | happne | Eh |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | present | Buh | pon topper |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location topper=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | infinitive | Buh Rabbit | pon topper *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent topper=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | dem and Cooter agg |  |  |  |  | off done fool um  Buh; a eh *compound* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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