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title: De Goose tell um how Buh Rabbit bin trow rotten wood een eh yeye wen… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Goose tell um how Buh Rabbit bin trow rotten wood een eh yeye wen eh bin er peep up de holler. Who acts: De, 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 65

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De Goose tell um how Buh Rabbit bin trow rotten wood een eh yeye wen eh bin er peep up de holler.

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**Who acts:** De, Buh · **What happens:** tell, trow, peep up · **To what, where:** um, rotten wood, de holler · **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 (De, 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:pg76586:10:65
# text = De Goose tell um how Buh Rabbit bin trow rotten wood een eh yeye wen eh bin er peep up de holler.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Goose	Goose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	trow	trow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	er	er	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	peep	peep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | De | um |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent um=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **trow** | present | Buh | rotten wood |  |  |  | eh wen eh bin | tree rules |
| 3 | **peep up** | infinitive | Buh *not said here* | de holler |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent holler=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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