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title: Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Me Budder, me glad fuh bleege you, but… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Me Budder, me glad fuh bleege you, but de good Lord tell me say only one at er time kin enter Hebben. Who acts: you, good Lord, one. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, with its dependency
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 108

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Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Me Budder, me glad fuh bleege you, but de good Lord tell me say only one at er time kin enter Hebben.

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**Who acts:** you, good Lord, one · **What happens:** bleege, tell, say, enter · **To what, where:** good Lord, Hebben, time kin, Rabbit mek answer · **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 (you, good Lord, one), 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:pg76586:11:108
# text = Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Me Budder, me glad fuh bleege you, but de good Lord tell me say only one at er time kin enter Hebben.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
5	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	compound	_	_
10	Budder	budder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	conj	_	_
13	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	bleege	bleege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	de	de	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nsubj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	er	er	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
31	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
32	Hebben	Hebben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bleege** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | good Lord |  | good Lord *= lord* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | good Lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **enter** *in a quote* | infinitive | one |  | Hebben | er time kin |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hebben=Destination |

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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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