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title: Buh Possum, him mek answer: “Yes, me Budder, me berry lub pussimmon,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Possum, him mek answer: “Yes, me Budder, me berry lub pussimmon, an me will glad fuh git some.” 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 55

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Buh Possum, him mek answer: “Yes, me Budder, me berry lub pussimmon, an me will glad fuh git some.”

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**Who acts:** wile · **What happens:** berry, git · **To what, where:** lub pussimmon, Possum mek answer

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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:pg76586:9:55
# text = Buh Possum, him mek answer: “Yes, me Budder, me berry lub pussimmon, an me will glad fuh git some.”
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
5	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
12	Budder	budder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	berry	berry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	lub	lub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	pussimmon	pussimmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **berry** *in a quote* | present | Arter's wile *= while* | lub pussimmon |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pussimmon=Location |
| 2 | **git** *in a quote* | future | Arter's wile *= while* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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