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title: Buh Rabbit watch de Ole Man es eh pass day arter day long de big roa… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit watch de Ole Man es eh pass day arter day long de big road, an eh hanker arter de fish, but eh yent know rightly how fuh git some. Who acts: Buh, yent, some. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, with its dep
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 1

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Buh Rabbit watch de Ole Man es eh pass day arter day long de big road, an eh hanker arter de fish, but eh yent know rightly how fuh git some.

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**Who acts:** Buh, yent, some · **What happens:** watch, pass, de, hanker, know, git · **To what, where:** big road, arter

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh, yent, some), 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:pg76586:10:1
# text = Buh Rabbit watch de Ole Man es eh pass day arter day long de big road, an eh hanker arter de fish, but eh yent know rightly how fuh git some.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	de	de	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	hanker	hanker	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	de	de	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
28	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
31	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | present | Buh |  |  |  |  | de Ole Man es | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | present | Buh *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **de** | present | Buh *not said here* | big road and a eh |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hanker** | infinitive | Buh *not said here* | arter |  |  |  | de fish | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | present | eh yent |  |  |  |  | rightly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **git** |  | some |  |  |  |  |  | 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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