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title: Buh Alligatuh bex an sorry all two: eh bex caze Buh Rabbit play dat… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Alligatuh bex an sorry all two: eh bex caze Buh Rabbit play dat trick an git way; eh sorry caze Buh Wolf beat up so sewere. Who acts: eh, sorry caze. 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 an
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 132

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Buh Alligatuh bex an sorry all two: eh bex caze Buh Rabbit play dat trick an git way; eh sorry caze Buh Wolf beat up so sewere.

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**Who acts:** eh, sorry caze · **What happens:** play, beat up · **To what, where:** dat trick

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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, sorry caze), 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:pg76586:11:132
# text = Buh Alligatuh bex an sorry all two: eh bex caze Buh Rabbit play dat trick an git way; eh sorry caze Buh Wolf beat up so sewere.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	Alligatuh	alligatuh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
3	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	eh	eh	X	GW	_	14	nsubj	_	_
10	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	caze	caze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	caze	caze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
25	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	sewere	sewere	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | infinitive | eh | dat trick |  |  |  | a git way *obl:unmarked*; Buh Rabbit *nsubj* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |
| 2 | **beat up** | present | sorry caze |  |  |  |  | sewere *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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