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title: Dem shake ban, and den Buh Rabbit tell Buh Wolf fuh foiler um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem shake ban, and den Buh Rabbit tell Buh Wolf fuh foiler um. Who acts: Dem, den. 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 93

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Dem shake ban, and den Buh Rabbit tell Buh Wolf fuh foiler um.

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**Who acts:** Dem, den · **What happens:** shake, tell · **To what, where:** ban, Buh foiler um · **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 (Dem, den), 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:pg76586:9:93
# text = Dem shake ban, and den Buh Rabbit tell Buh Wolf fuh foiler um.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ban	ban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
13	foiler	foiler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | infinitive | Dem | ban |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ban=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | den | Buh foiler um |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |

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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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