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title: Wen Buh Wolf come wid eh ax, eh fine Buh Rabbit an Buh Possum all tw… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Wolf come wid eh ax, eh fine Buh Rabbit an Buh Possum all two gone. Who acts: Wen. 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 59

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Wen Buh Wolf come wid eh ax, eh fine Buh Rabbit an Buh Possum all two gone.

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**Who acts:** Wen · **What happens:** be

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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), 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:pg76586:9:59
# text = Wen Buh Wolf come wid eh ax, eh fine Buh Rabbit an Buh Possum all two gone.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
10	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Possum	possum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Wen |  |  |  |  | eh ax *obl:unmarked*; wid *property* | 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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