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title: Buh Rabbit, him duh tan off duh watch an duh half kill isself wid la… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him duh tan off duh watch an duh half kill isself wid laugh. 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 181

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Buh Rabbit, him duh tan off duh watch an duh half kill isself wid laugh.

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**Who acts:** RABBIT · **What happens:** tan off, watch, kill · **To what, where:** duh half, isself

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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:pg76586:1:181
# text = Buh Rabbit, him duh tan off duh watch an duh half kill isself wid laugh.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	duh	duh	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	tan	tan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	nsubj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	obj	_	_
13	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tan off** |  | RABBIT |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **watch** | infinitive | RABBIT *not said here* | a duh half |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** | present | Rabbit | isself |  |  |  | wid laugh *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus isself=Experiencer laugh=Result |

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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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