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title: Buh Possum so anxious fuh tase de pussimmon eh clean furgit wuh Buh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Possum so anxious fuh tase de pussimmon eh clean furgit wuh Buh Wolf bin leff um fuh do, an so eh gone ter him house fuh git eh fanner. Who acts: Buh um fuh, eh. 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 57

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Buh Possum so anxious fuh tase de pussimmon eh clean furgit wuh Buh Wolf bin leff um fuh do, an so eh gone ter him house fuh git eh fanner.

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**Who acts:** Buh um fuh, eh · **What happens:** do, go · **To what, where:** house, anxious tase

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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 (Buh um fuh, eh), 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:pg76586:9:57
# text = Buh Possum so anxious fuh tase de pussimmon eh clean furgit wuh Buh Wolf bin leff um fuh do, an so eh gone ter him house fuh git eh fanner.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	tase	tase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
8	pussimmon	pussimmon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
10	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	furgit	furgit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
12	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
16	leff	leff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
24	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	fanner	fanner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Buh um fuh |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | participle | a eh *not said here* | house  fuh eh fanner |  |  |  | ter fuh | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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