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title: Den Buh Rabbit say: “Leely Gal, mobe, me tell you, so me kin dip som… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Rabbit say: “Leely Gal, mobe, me tell you, so me kin dip some water outer de spring long me calabash.” Who acts: Den. 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 cla
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 295

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Den Buh Rabbit say: “Leely Gal, mobe, me tell you, so me kin dip some water outer de spring long me calabash.”

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** say, tell, dip · **To what, where:** Leely Gal, you, water · **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 (Den), 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:pg76586:1:295
# text = Den Buh Rabbit say: “Leely Gal, mobe, me tell you, so me kin dip some water outer de spring long me calabash.”
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Leely	Leely	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mobe	mobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	kin	kin	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	dip	dip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
24	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
27	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Den | Leely Gal and mobe |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gal=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Den | Leely Gal and mobe *not said here* | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **dip** *in a quote* |  | Den | some water |  |  | spring | calabash *obj*; long *property* | 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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