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title: Buh Rabbit always tote eh good sense bout um, an eh nebber will run… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit always tote eh good sense bout um, an eh nebber will run no resk. Who acts: Rabbit, eh nebber. 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 141

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Buh Rabbit always tote eh good sense bout um, an eh nebber will run no resk.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, eh nebber · **What happens:** tote, run · **To what, where:** good sense, resk

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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 (Rabbit, eh nebber), 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:pg76586:10:141
# text = Buh Rabbit always tote eh good sense bout um, an eh nebber will run no resk.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	tote	tote	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	resk	resk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tote** | infinitive | Rabbit | good sense |  |  |  | always *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | future | a eh nebber | no resk |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme resk=Trajectory |

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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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