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title: Wen Buh Wolf fine out eh couldnt pit eh han pon topper Buh Rabbit fu… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Wolf fine out eh couldnt pit eh han pon topper Buh Rabbit fuh lick um, eh call ter Buh Possum, wuh bin hab house close by, an eh ax um fuh run day an watch Buh Rabbit tel him coulder git him ax fuh cut down de tree an ketch Buh Rabbit. Who acts: Wen, pit eh, han pon topper, watch. A sentence
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 51

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Wen Buh Wolf fine out eh couldnt pit eh han pon topper Buh Rabbit fuh lick um, eh call ter Buh Possum, wuh bin hab house close by, an eh ax um fuh run day an watch Buh Rabbit tel him coulder git him ax fuh cut down de tree an ketch Buh Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** Wen, pit eh, han pon topper, watch · **What happens:** fine out, topper, lick, call, bin, run · **To what, where:** eh, um, ter Buh Possum, hab house, eh um fuh · **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 (Wen, pit eh, han pon topper, watch), 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:pg76586:9:51
# text = Wen Buh Wolf fine out eh couldnt pit eh han pon topper Buh Rabbit fuh lick um, eh call ter Buh Possum, wuh bin hab house close by, an eh ax um fuh run day an watch Buh Rabbit tel him coulder git him ax fuh cut down de tree an ketch Buh Rabbit.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	fine	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	eh	eh	X	GW	_	4	obj	_	_
7	couldnt	couldnt	X	NN	_	6	goeswith	_	_
8	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	lick	lick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
20	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	flat:foreign	_	_
22	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
26	bin	bin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
34	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
37	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
38	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
41	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	_
43	tel	tel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
44	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	coulder	coulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	compound	_	_
48	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
49	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	48	discourse	_	_
50	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	amod	_	_
51	down	down	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
52	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	53	compound	_	_
53	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
54	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
56	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	appos	_	_
57	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fine out** | past | Wen | eh |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eh=Recipient |
| 2 | **topper** |  | pit eh |  |  |  |  | Buh *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lick** | infinitive | han pon topper *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent um=Source |
| 4 | **call** | infinitive |  |  | ter Buh Possum |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent possum=Recipient |
| 5 | **bin** | infinitive |  | hab house |  |  |  | close *property* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 6 | **run** | present |  | a eh um fuh |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **tel** | past | a watch | um |  |  |  | git him ax and a cut tree ketch *obl*; Buh *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 8 | **cut down** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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