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title: But wen eh fine Buh Rabbit sorter skittish, an eh duh ease ehself of… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: But wen eh fine Buh Rabbit sorter skittish, an eh duh ease ehself off, eh tek de chance, an, all ober sutten, eh trow ehself offer de bench an eh mek arter Buh Rabbit. Who acts: wen chance. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 143

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But wen eh fine Buh Rabbit sorter skittish, an eh duh ease ehself off, eh tek de chance, an, all ober sutten, eh trow ehself offer de bench an eh mek arter Buh Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** wen chance · **What happens:** trow, offer · **To what, where:** ehself

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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 (wen chance), 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:pg76586:10:143
# text = But wen eh fine Buh Rabbit sorter skittish, an eh duh ease ehself off, eh tek de chance, an, all ober sutten, eh trow ehself offer de bench an eh mek arter Buh Rabbit.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
3	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
8	skittish	skittish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	flat:foreign	_	_
20	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
25	ober	ober	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sutten	sutten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
28	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
29	trow	trow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
30	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	bench	bench	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
39	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trow** | infinitive | wen chance and a ober sutten | ehself |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **offer** | infinitive | wen chance and a ober sutten *not said here* |  |  |  |  | de *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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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