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title: Buh Rabbit mek answer een er woice so leely you cacely kin yeddy um,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit mek answer een er woice so leely you cacely kin yeddy um, an tell um say eh berry sick; dat eh bin gwine home wen eh back an eh leg gie out, an eh couldnt trabble no furder. Who acts: you, um, eh bin, eh leg. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Ch
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 5

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Buh Rabbit mek answer een er woice so leely you cacely kin yeddy um, an tell um say eh berry sick; dat eh bin gwine home wen eh back an eh leg gie out, an eh couldnt trabble no furder.

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**Who acts:** you, um, eh bin, eh leg · **What happens:** kin, tell, say, eh back, gie out · **To what, where:** Rabbit er woice, sick · **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 (you, um, eh bin, eh leg), 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:pg76586:10:5
# text = Buh Rabbit mek answer een er woice so leely you cacely kin yeddy um, an tell um say eh berry sick; dat eh bin gwine home wen eh back an eh leg gie out, an eh couldnt trabble no furder.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
3	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
6	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	woice	woice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	leely	leely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	cacely	cacely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	kin	kin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
20	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	gie	gie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	trabble	trabble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
42	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	43	det	_	_
43	furder	furder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kin** | present | you | Rabbit er woice |  |  |  | yeddy um *obj*; cacely, leely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | um | sick  eh berry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sick=Topic |
| 4 | **eh back** |  | that eh bin |  |  |  |  | a eh couldnt trabble and no furder *conj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **gie out** | present | a eh leg |  |  |  |  |  | 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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