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title: Buh Rabbit now, eh so glad eh free, eh hop off one side an hide ehse… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit now, eh so glad eh free, eh hop off one side an hide ehself een one gall-berry ticket, way nobody kin shum, an cock eh yez fuh notus wuh gwine happne. Who acts: you, een, nobody. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 117

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Buh Rabbit now, eh so glad eh free, eh hop off one side an hide ehself een one gall-berry ticket, way nobody kin shum, an cock eh yez fuh notus wuh gwine happne.

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**Who acts:** you, een, nobody · **What happens:** rabbit, hide, ticket, kin · **To what, where:** ehself, shum

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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, een, nobody), 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:pg76586:11:117
# text = Buh Rabbit now, eh so glad eh free, eh hop off one side an hide ehself een one gall-berry ticket, way nobody kin shum, an cock eh yez fuh notus wuh gwine happne.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	rabbit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hop	hop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
21	gall	gall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	ticket	ticket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
27	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	28	nsubj	_	_
28	kin	kin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	shum	shum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
34	yez	yez	X	FW	_	36	compound	_	_
35	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
37	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	_
38	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	happne	happne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rabbit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hide** | present |  | ehself |  |  |  | off one side | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ehself=Patient |
| 3 | **ticket** |  | een |  |  |  |  | way *appos*; a cock eh *appos* | tree rules |
| 4 | **kin** | present | nobody | shum |  |  |  |  | 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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