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title: Buh Rabbit mek answer: “Yent me gone to you spring. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit mek answer: “Yent me gone to you spring. Who acts: Yent. 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 272

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Buh Rabbit mek answer: “Yent me gone to you spring.

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**Who acts:** Yent · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** Buh mek answer, you

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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 (Yent), 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:pg76586:1:272
# text = Buh Rabbit mek answer: “Yent me gone to you spring.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Yent	Yent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | participle | Yent  me | Buh mek answer *not said here* | you |  | spring |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location answer=Theme |

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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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