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title: Buh Possum come, an eh seddown onder de tree duh gard Buh Rabbit wil… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Possum come, an eh seddown onder de tree duh gard Buh Rabbit wile Buh Wolf gone fuh him ax. Who acts: Possum. 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 clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 52

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Buh Possum come, an eh seddown onder de tree duh gard Buh Rabbit wile Buh Wolf gone fuh him ax.

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**Who acts:** Possum · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** eh seddown

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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 (Possum), 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:pg76586:9:52
# text = Buh Possum come, an eh seddown onder de tree duh gard Buh Rabbit wile Buh Wolf gone fuh him ax.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	seddown	seddown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	onder	onder	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
11	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
12	gard	gard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wile	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
19	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	compound	_	_
21	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Possum | a eh seddown |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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