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title: Buh Rabbit, him so smate eh keep outer Buh Wolf way so eh couldnt co… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him so smate eh keep outer Buh Wolf way so eh couldnt come pon topper um. Who acts: Rabbit, eh couldnt. 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 52

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Buh Rabbit, him so smate eh keep outer Buh Wolf way so eh couldnt come pon topper um.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, eh couldnt · **What happens:** keep, come · **To what, where:** outer Wolf way, pon

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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, eh couldnt), 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:pg76586:10:52
# text = Buh Rabbit, him so smate eh keep outer Buh Wolf way so eh couldnt come pon topper um.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	smate	smate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
17	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Rabbit  um | outer Wolf way |  |  |  | smate eh *nsubj* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | eh couldnt | pon |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pon=Theme |

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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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