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title: Eh tink say eh pizen Buh Rabbit, an dem gree fuh leff um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh tink say eh pizen Buh Rabbit, an dem gree fuh leff um. Who acts: Eh, dem. 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 44

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Eh tink say eh pizen Buh Rabbit, an dem gree fuh leff um.

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**Who acts:** Eh, dem · **What happens:** tink, say, gree · **To what, where:** fuh leff um · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, dem), 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:pg76586:10:44
# text = Eh tink say eh pizen Buh Rabbit, an dem gree fuh leff um.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tink	tink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
4	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
5	pizen	pizen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gree	gree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	um	um	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 | **tink** | present | Eh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Eh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gree** | infinitive | a dem | fuh leff um |  |  |  |  | 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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