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title: Arter Buh Rabbit bin fool Buh Wolf bout dem Cooter agg, an slip way… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arter Buh Rabbit bin fool Buh Wolf bout dem Cooter agg, an slip way from Buh Possum, eh faid fuh meet Buh Wolf, an eh walk berry skittish ebry time eh lef eh house. Who acts: Arter. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 66

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Arter Buh Rabbit bin fool Buh Wolf bout dem Cooter agg, an slip way from Buh Possum, eh faid fuh meet Buh Wolf, an eh walk berry skittish ebry time eh lef eh house.

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**Who acts:** Arter · **What happens:** bin, meet · **To what, where:** fool, Buh

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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 (Arter), 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:pg76586:9:66
# text = Arter Buh Rabbit bin fool Buh Wolf bout dem Cooter agg, an slip way from Buh Possum, eh faid fuh meet Buh Wolf, an eh walk berry skittish ebry time eh lef eh house.
1	Arter	Arter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	agg	agg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
21	faid	faid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
22	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
23	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
31	skittish	skittish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	ebry	ebry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	eh	eh	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	30	appos	_	_
35	lef	lef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
36	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | Arter | fool |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fool=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | infinitive | Arter *not said here* | Buh |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buh=Co-Agent |

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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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