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title: De minnit Buh Rabbit drap in de brier patch, eh cock up eh tail, eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De minnit Buh Rabbit drap in de brier patch, eh cock up eh tail, eh jump, an eh holler back to Buh Wolf: “Good bye, Budder! Who acts: De minnit. 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 prag
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 366

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De minnit Buh Rabbit drap in de brier patch, eh cock up eh tail, eh jump, an eh holler back to Buh Wolf: “Good bye, Budder!

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**Who acts:** De minnit · **What happens:** drap, cock up · **To what, where:** de brier patch, tail

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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 (De minnit), 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:pg76586:1:366
# text = De minnit Buh Rabbit drap in de brier patch, eh cock up eh tail, eh jump, an eh holler back to Buh Wolf: “Good bye, Budder!
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	minnit	minnit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	brier	brier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	cock	cock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
30	bye	bye	INTJ	UH	_	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Budder	budder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drap** | present | De minnit |  |  | de brier patch |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cock up** | infinitive | De minnit *not said here* | eh tail and eh jump |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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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