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title: Buh Rabbit, eh laugh oneside to isself an mek plan to pit trouble on… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, eh laugh oneside to isself an mek plan to pit trouble on Buh Alligatur. Who acts: Rabbit. 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 155

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Buh Rabbit, eh laugh oneside to isself an mek plan to pit trouble on Buh Alligatur.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit · **What happens:** laugh, pit · **To what, where:** oneside, trouble, 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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg76586:1:155
# text = Buh Rabbit, eh laugh oneside to isself an mek plan to pit trouble on Buh Alligatur.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	oneside	oneside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	pit	pit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | infinitive | Rabbit | oneside |  |  |  | to isself; a mek plan *parataxis* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oneside=Theme |
| 2 | **pit** | to-infinitive | Rabbit *not said here* | trouble |  | Buh |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Source |

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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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