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title: Es eh do dat, Buh Rabbit trow rotten wood een eh yeye. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Es eh do dat, Buh Rabbit trow rotten wood een eh yeye. Who acts: eh, Es. 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 60

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Es eh do dat, Buh Rabbit trow rotten wood een eh yeye.

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**Who acts:** eh, Es · **What happens:** do, trow · **To what, where:** dat, rotten wood

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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, Es), 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:pg76586:10:60
# text = Es eh do dat, Buh Rabbit trow rotten wood een eh yeye.
1	Es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
8	trow	trow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | eh | dat |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Eventuality |
| 2 | **trow** | present | Es  Buh Rabbit | rotten wood |  |  |  | een eh yeye *obj* | 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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