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title: Buh Alligatur yeddy um; an bimeby eh crawl outer de mash grass, an e… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Alligatur yeddy um; an bimeby eh crawl outer de mash grass, an eh leddown close by Buh Rabbit, so him kin ketch all wuh Buh Rabbit der play an der sing. Who acts: bimeby eh, EH, Buh Rabbit. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Openi
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 27

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Buh Alligatur yeddy um; an bimeby eh crawl outer de mash grass, an eh leddown close by Buh Rabbit, so him kin ketch all wuh Buh Rabbit der play an der sing.

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**Who acts:** bimeby eh, EH, Buh Rabbit · **What happens:** crawl, leddown, ketch, play · **To what, where:** outer de mash grass, eh, der sing, Buh yeddy um

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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 (bimeby eh, EH, Buh Rabbit), 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:pg76586:11:27
# text = Buh Alligatur yeddy um; an bimeby eh crawl outer de mash grass, an eh leddown close by Buh Rabbit, so him kin ketch all wuh Buh Rabbit der play an der sing.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	crawl	crawl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	mash	mash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	leddown	leddown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	kin	kin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
28	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
29	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
32	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crawl** | present | a bimeby eh | outer de mash grass |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location grass=Theme |
| 2 | **leddown** | participle |  | a eh *not said here* |  |  |  | by Buh; close *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ketch** |  | EH |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **play** | infinitive | all Buh Rabbit | a der sing |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=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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