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title: Buh Rabbit, him bin hab eh yeye on Buh Wolf all de time, an befo Buh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him bin hab eh yeye on Buh Wolf all de time, an befo Buh Wolf could mek eh way tru de crowd an come up long um, Buh Rabbit slip out de back do an trow ehself een de brier patch, way Buh Wolf couldnt foller um. Who acts: Rabbit, yeye, an, Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia c
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 144

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Buh Rabbit, him bin hab eh yeye on Buh Wolf all de time, an befo Buh Wolf could mek eh way tru de crowd an come up long um, Buh Rabbit slip out de back do an trow ehself een de brier patch, way Buh Wolf couldnt foller um.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, yeye, an, Buh · **What happens:** bin, mek, crowd, come up, slip out, trow · **To what, where:** hab, way, um, Rabbit, 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 (Rabbit, yeye, an, Buh), 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:pg76586:10:144
# text = Buh Rabbit, him bin hab eh yeye on Buh Wolf all de time, an befo Buh Wolf could mek eh way tru de crowd an come up long um, Buh Rabbit slip out de back do an trow ehself een de brier patch, way Buh Wolf couldnt foller um.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	flat	_	_
6	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	mek	mek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
22	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	tru	tru	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	conj	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	flat	_	_
26	crowd	crowd	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	nsubj	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
29	up	up	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
31	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
35	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	de	de	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	trow	trow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
42	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	46	amod	_	_
44	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	43	flat	_	_
45	brier	brier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod:unmarked	_	_
49	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	appos	_	_
50	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	flat	_	_
51	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	foller	foller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | Rabbit | hab |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mek** | could | yeye on Buh Wolf | eh way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **crowd** | infinitive | yeye on Buh Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come up** | present | an | um |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **slip out** | present | Buh | Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  | de back | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent rabbit=Patient |
| 6 | **trow** | present · do-support | Rabbit | ehself |  |  |  | een brier patch  way *obl* | 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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