---
title: Buh Rabbit try fuh pull eh hand back, an eh say: “Wuh you hole me ha… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit try fuh pull eh hand back, an eh say: “Wuh you hole me han fuh? Who acts: Rabbit, eh, you. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/1/305/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/1/) / 305

# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 305

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Buh Rabbit try fuh pull eh hand back, an eh say: “Wuh you hole me han fuh?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Rabbit, eh, you · **What happens:** try, pull, hand back, say, hole · **To what, where:** eh · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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, eh, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:1:305
# text = Buh Rabbit try fuh pull eh hand back, an eh say: “Wuh you hole me han fuh?
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
19	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
20	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | infinitive | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pull** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hand back** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | infinitive | a eh |  |  |  |  | hole han *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hole** *in a quote* |  | you | a eh *= eh* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 304](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/1/304/)
- next →: [sentence 306](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/1/306/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/1/)