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title: Buh Rabbit him walk up las, an eh yent gone berry close needer. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit him walk up las, an eh yent gone berry close needer. Who acts: you, eh yent. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 140

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Buh Rabbit him walk up las, an eh yent gone berry close needer.

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**Who acts:** you, eh yent · **What happens:** rabbit, walk up, go · **To what, where:** dem, las, berry close needer

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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 (you, eh yent), 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:pg76586:10:140
# text = Buh Rabbit him walk up las, an eh yent gone berry close needer.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	rabbit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	needer	needer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rabbit** | imperative | you *not said here* | dem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | las |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme la=Trajectory |
| 3 | **go** | participle | a eh yent *not said here* | berry close needer |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location needer=Theme |

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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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