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title: De Ole Man gree fuh do so, an eh liff Buh Rabbit up, an eh pit um ee… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Ole Man gree fuh do so, an eh liff Buh Rabbit up, an eh pit um een eh waggin long side de pile er fish. Who acts: Ole Man, eh liff. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 7

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De Ole Man gree fuh do so, an eh liff Buh Rabbit up, an eh pit um een eh waggin long side de pile er fish.

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**Who acts:** Ole Man, eh liff · **What happens:** gree, do, rabbit up · **To what, where:** fuh, eh pit um

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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 (Ole Man, eh liff), 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:pg76586:10:7
# text = De Ole Man gree fuh do so, an eh liff Buh Rabbit up, an eh pit um een eh waggin long side de pile er fish.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gree	gree	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	liff	liff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	Rabbit	rabbit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADP	GW	Typo=Yes	28	case	_	_
22	waggin	waggin	X	NN	_	21	goeswith	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gree** | infinitive | Ole Man | fuh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | Ole Man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rabbit up** | present | a eh liff | a eh pit um eh er fish |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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