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title: One day eh meet Buh Rabbit in de big road, an eh ax um how eh mek ou… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day eh meet Buh Rabbit in de big road, an eh ax um how eh mek out fur water. 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 267

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One day eh meet Buh Rabbit in de big road, an eh ax um how eh mek out fur water.

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**What happens:** meet · **To what, where:** Buh Rabbit, de big road

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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: 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:pg76586:1:267
# text = One day eh meet Buh Rabbit in de big road, an eh ax um how eh mek out fur water.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
17	eh	eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present |  | Buh Rabbit |  | de big road and a eh ax um  mek fur water | day |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Co-Agent |

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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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