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title: Buh Rabbit, him bin berry lub de gal, an him hanker arter marry um,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him bin berry lub de gal, an him hanker arter marry um, so eh study bout de ting an mek eh scheme. Who acts: bin. 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 cl
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 25

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Buh Rabbit, him bin berry lub de gal, an him hanker arter marry um, so eh study bout de ting an mek eh scheme.

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**Who acts:** bin · **What happens:** bin, hanker, marry · **To what, where:** berry lub, arter, um, Rabbit

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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 (bin), 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:pg76586:11:25
# text = Buh Rabbit, him bin berry lub de gal, an him hanker arter marry um, so eh study bout de ting an mek eh scheme.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	lub	lub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	gal	gal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hanker	hanker	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
23	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	scheme	scheme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | bin | berry lub |  |  |  | de's gal *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hanker** | infinitive | bin | arter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **marry** | infinitive | bin *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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