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title: Arter er wile Buh Rabbit say: “Buh Possum, dem yer pussimmon berry s… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arter er wile Buh Rabbit say: “Buh Possum, dem yer pussimmon berry sweet. Who acts: wile. 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 53

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Arter er wile Buh Rabbit say: “Buh Possum, dem yer pussimmon berry sweet.

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**Who acts:** wile · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Possum · **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 (wile), 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:pg76586:9:53
# text = Arter er wile Buh Rabbit say: “Buh Possum, dem yer pussimmon berry sweet.
1	Arter	Arter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	er	er	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	wile	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	Possum	possum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	pussimmon	pussimmon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	sweet	sweet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | Arter's wile | Possum and dem |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent possum=Topic |

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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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