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title: Eh loose Buh Rabbit from de spakleberry bush, an eh tek um by de hin… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh loose Buh Rabbit from de spakleberry bush, an eh tek um by de hine leg, and eh swing um roun, an eh trow um way in de tick brier patch fuh tare eh hide an cratch eh yeye out. Who acts: Eh, um roun. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 365

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Eh loose Buh Rabbit from de spakleberry bush, an eh tek um by de hine leg, and eh swing um roun, an eh trow um way in de tick brier patch fuh tare eh hide an cratch eh yeye out.

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**Who acts:** Eh, um roun · **What happens:** loose, trow, hide out · **To what, where:** Buh Rabbit, spakleberry bush, way, eh yeye, de fuh tare eh

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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 (Eh, um roun), 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:pg76586:1:365
# text = Eh loose Buh Rabbit from de spakleberry bush, an eh tek um by de hine leg, and eh swing um roun, an eh trow um way in de tick brier patch fuh tare eh hide an cratch eh yeye out.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loose	loose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	advmod	_	_
7	spakleberry	spakleberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
16	hine	hine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	trow	trow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
28	um	um	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
31	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
32	tick	tick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	brier	brier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
36	tare	tare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
38	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	cratch	cratch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **loose** | past | Eh | Buh Rabbit |  | spakleberry bush and a eh tek um by de hine leg |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rabbit=Patient |
| 2 | **trow** | infinitive | um roun | um way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hide out** | present | um roun *not said here* | a eh yeye |  | de fuh tare eh |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yeye=Patient in eh=Location |

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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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