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title: Arter Buh Rabbit done gedder de fish wuh eh bin tief outer de Ole Ma… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arter Buh Rabbit done gedder de fish wuh eh bin tief outer de Ole Man waggin, eh pit um on tring, an eh start fuh tote um ter him house. Who acts: eh start. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 15

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Arter Buh Rabbit done gedder de fish wuh eh bin tief outer de Ole Man waggin, eh pit um on tring, an eh start fuh tote um ter him house.

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**Who acts:** eh start · **What happens:** do, um · **To what, where:** tief outer waggin house

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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 (eh start), 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:pg76586:10:15
# text = Arter Buh Rabbit done gedder de fish wuh eh bin tief outer de Ole Man waggin, eh pit um on tring, an eh start fuh tote um ter him house.
1	Arter	Arter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	gedder	gedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
8	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
9	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
11	tief	tief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
12	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
13	de	de	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	waggin	waggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	tring	tring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	tote	tote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
30	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	_
32	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **um** |  | a eh start |  |  |  |  | ter fish | 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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