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title: Buh Wolf hail um an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, dat duh you? — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf hail um an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, dat duh you? Who acts: Buh hail um. 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 83

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Buh Wolf hail um an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, dat duh you?

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**Who acts:** Buh hail um · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Rabbit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 hail um), 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:pg76586:9:83
# text = Buh Wolf hail um an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, dat duh you?
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	dat	that	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nmod	_	_
14	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Buh hail um | Rabbit  dat  you |  |  |  | a eh *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rabbit=Topic |

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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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