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title: Buh Rabbit tie up de mout er de bag berry tight, an heng um gen on d… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit tie up de mout er de bag berry tight, an heng um gen on de tree lim. Who acts: Buh. 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 115

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Buh Rabbit tie up de mout er de bag berry tight, an heng um gen on de tree lim.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** tie up · **To what, where:** mout bag berry

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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 (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:pg76586:11:115
# text = Buh Rabbit tie up de mout er de bag berry tight, an heng um gen on de tree lim.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tie	tie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	mout	mout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
7	er	er	X	FW	_	9	compound	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
11	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	heng	heng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	compound	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	lim	lim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie up** | present | Buh | mout bag berry |  |  |  | a um gen on de tree lim *parataxis*; tight *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |

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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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