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title: Es de Ole Man retch eh big gate, eh look behine fuh see how Buh Rabb… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Es de Ole Man retch eh big gate, eh look behine fuh see how Buh Rabbit duh mek out; an de fus ting eh know Buh Rabbit yent day een de waggin, an heap er him fish done missin. Who acts: Es, Buh Rabbit, de, fus ting eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Char
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 12

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Es de Ole Man retch eh big gate, eh look behine fuh see how Buh Rabbit duh mek out; an de fus ting eh know Buh Rabbit yent day een de waggin, an heap er him fish done missin.

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**Who acts:** Es, Buh Rabbit, de, fus ting eh, waggin fish · **What happens:** retch, look, see, mek out, eh, know · **To what, where:** big gate, waggin fish, missin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Es, Buh Rabbit, de, fus ting eh), 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:pg76586:10:12
# text = Es de Ole Man retch eh big gate, eh look behine fuh see how Buh Rabbit duh mek out; an de fus ting eh know Buh Rabbit yent day een de waggin, an heap er him fish done missin.
1	Es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	retch	retch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	behine	behine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	mek	mek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	nsubj	_	_
24	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
28	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
32	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	flat	_	_
33	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	compound	_	_
34	waggin	waggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
38	er	er	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nmod	_	_
40	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
41	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl	_	_
42	missin	missin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retch** | infinitive | Es | big gate |  |  |  | de Ole Man | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | Es *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behine *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | Es *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **mek out** | infinitive | Buh Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **eh** |  | de |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** | present | a fus ting eh | waggin fish |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus |
| 7 | **do** | participle | waggin fish *not said here* | missin |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent missin=Eventuality |

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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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