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title: All dis time Buh Rabbit duh squat een de bush, way eh kin see an yed… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: All dis time Buh Rabbit duh squat een de bush, way eh kin see an yeddy ebry ting, duh half kill ehself wid laugh. Who acts: you, half. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 133

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All dis time Buh Rabbit duh squat een de bush, way eh kin see an yeddy ebry ting, duh half kill ehself wid laugh.

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**Who acts:** you, half · **What happens:** see, kill · **To what, where:** ebry ting, ehself

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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, half), 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:pg76586:11:133
# text = All dis time Buh Rabbit duh squat een de bush, way eh kin see an yeddy ebry ting, duh half kill ehself wid laugh.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	squat	squat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
10	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	ebry	ebry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
21	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
22	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	23	nsubj	_	_
23	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
24	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | a ebry ting |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ting=Stimulus |
| 2 | **kill** | present | half | ehself |  |  |  | wid laugh *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus ehself=Experiencer laugh=Result |

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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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