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title: While eh duh bun, Buh Wolf bague an pray Buh Rabbit fuh leh um come… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: While eh duh bun, Buh Wolf bague an pray Buh Rabbit fuh leh um come out, but Buh Rabbit wouldnt yeddy um. Who acts: Buh, Buh Rabbit. 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 ev
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 98

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While eh duh bun, Buh Wolf bague an pray Buh Rabbit fuh leh um come out, but Buh Rabbit wouldnt yeddy um.

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**Who acts:** Buh, Buh Rabbit · **What happens:** pray, come out, um · **To what, where:** Buh bague

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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, Buh Rabbit), 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:pg76586:9:98
# text = While eh duh bun, Buh Wolf bague an pray Buh Rabbit fuh leh um come out, but Buh Rabbit wouldnt yeddy um.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	bun	bun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	bague	bague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
14	leh	leh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	um	um	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	wouldnt	wouldnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | present |  | Buh bague |  |  |  | bun *advcl* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **come out** | present | Buh |  |  |  |  | leh um *nsubj*; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **um** |  | Buh Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | 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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