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title: One time Buh Rabbit, him meet Buh Alligatur, an eh ax um: “Budder, y… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One time Buh Rabbit, him meet Buh Alligatur, an eh ax um: “Budder, you tek life berry onconsarne. Who acts: COME, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, 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 1, sentence 145

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One time Buh Rabbit, him meet Buh Alligatur, an eh ax um: “Budder, you tek life berry onconsarne.

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**Who acts:** COME, you · **What happens:** meet, tek · **To what, where:** Buh, berry onconsarne

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (COME, you), 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:pg76586:1:145
# text = One time Buh Rabbit, him meet Buh Alligatur, an eh ax um: “Budder, you tek life berry onconsarne.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Budder	budder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tek	tek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	onconsarne	onconsarne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | COME | Buh |  |  | time | Budder *obl* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buh=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **tek** *in a quote* | present | you | berry onconsarne |  |  |  |  | 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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