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title: Eh yeddy close, an den eh say: “Buh Rabbit, enty dat duh you woice?” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh yeddy close, an den eh say: “Buh Rabbit, enty dat duh you woice?” Who acts: Eh yeddy, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, 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 11, sentence 103

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Eh yeddy close, an den eh say: “Buh Rabbit, enty dat duh you woice?”

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**Who acts:** Eh yeddy, you · **What happens:** say, woice · **To what, where:** Rabbit · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh yeddy, you), 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:pg76586:11:103
# text = Eh yeddy close, an den eh say: “Buh Rabbit, enty dat duh you woice?”
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	enty	enty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	woice	woice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | Eh yeddy and a den eh | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rabbit=Topic |
| 2 | **woice** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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