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title: Buh Rabbit, him say: “Hey titter, enty you guine tan one side an lem… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him say: “Hey titter, enty you guine tan one side an lemme git some water?” Who acts: RABBIT, titter. 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 293

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Buh Rabbit, him say: “Hey titter, enty you guine tan one side an lemme git some water?”

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**Who acts:** RABBIT, titter · **What happens:** say, tan · **To what, where:** Rabbit, one side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, titter), 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:pg76586:1:293
# text = Buh Rabbit, him say: “Hey titter, enty you guine tan one side an lemme git some water?”
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	titter	titter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	enty	enty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	tan	tan	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	lemme	lemme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | RABBIT | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tan** *in a quote* | present | titter | one side |  |  |  | a lemme git *obj*; some water *obj* | 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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