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title: Buh Rabbit run, but de Dog push um so tight Buh Rabbit, fuh sabe ehs… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit run, but de Dog push um so tight Buh Rabbit, fuh sabe ehself, jump een one holler oak tree. Who acts: Buh. 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 55

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Buh Rabbit run, but de Dog push um so tight Buh Rabbit, fuh sabe ehself, jump een one holler oak tree.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** run, push, sabe, jump · **To what, where:** um, ehself, een oak tree

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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 (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:pg76586:10:55
# text = Buh Rabbit run, but de Dog push um so tight Buh Rabbit, fuh sabe ehself, jump een one holler oak tree.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	de	de	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	sabe	sabe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	jump	jump	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | present |  | um |  |  |  | de Dog; tight Buh Rabbit *obj* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent um=Theme rabbit=Destination |
| 3 | **sabe** | infinitive |  | ehself |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **jump** | infinitive |  | een oak tree |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory |

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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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