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title: Buh Wolf questun um, an wen eh fine out how Buh Rabbit done fool um… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf questun um, an wen eh fine out how Buh Rabbit done fool um an git way, eh tun een an cuss Buh Possum an beat um. Who acts: Buh. 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 o
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 62

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Buh Wolf questun um, an wen eh fine out how Buh Rabbit done fool um an git way, eh tun een an cuss Buh Possum an beat um.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** um · **To what, where:** Buh questun um

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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), 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:pg76586:9:62
# text = Buh Wolf questun um, an wen eh fine out how Buh Rabbit done fool um an git way, eh tun een an cuss Buh Possum an beat um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	questun	questun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	done	done	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cuss	cuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
27	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **um** |  | Buh |  |  |  |  | done fool um *nsubj*; a git way *nsubj*; a cuss *nsubj* | 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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