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title: Den eh tek an loose Buh Rabbit from de Tar Baby, an eh tie um teh on… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh tek an loose Buh Rabbit from de Tar Baby, an eh tie um teh one spakleberry bush, an eh git switch an eh lick um tel eh tired. 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 p
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 350

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Den eh tek an loose Buh Rabbit from de Tar Baby, an eh tie um teh one spakleberry bush, an eh git switch an eh lick um tel eh tired.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** tek, switch · **To what, where:** loose Buh Rabbit, de Tar, eh um tel

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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:pg76586:1:350
# text = Den eh tek an loose Buh Rabbit from de Tar Baby, an eh tie um teh one spakleberry bush, an eh git switch an eh lick um tel eh tired.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	tek	tek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Tar	Tar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	Baby	Baby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	tie	tie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
17	teh	teh	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	spakleberry	spakleberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	switch	switch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	lick	lick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
31	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tek** | infinitive | Den | a loose Buh Rabbit |  | de Tar |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **switch** | infinitive |  | a eh um tel |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tel=Patient |

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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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