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title: Buh Rabbit play an sing, an pick eh chance, an wen Buh Alligatur duh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit play an sing, an pick eh chance, an wen Buh Alligatur duh shet eh yeye an open eh mout fuh laugh, eh tek eh fiddle bow an, all ob er sutten, eh knock one er Buh Alligatur yeye teet outer eh head. Who acts: Rabbit, shet eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the ver
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 29

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Buh Rabbit play an sing, an pick eh chance, an wen Buh Alligatur duh shet eh yeye an open eh mout fuh laugh, eh tek eh fiddle bow an, all ob er sutten, eh knock one er Buh Alligatur yeye teet outer eh head.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, shet eh · **What happens:** play, bow, knock · **To what, where:** sing, an, one er

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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 (Rabbit, shet eh), 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:pg76586:11:29
# text = Buh Rabbit play an sing, an pick eh chance, an wen Buh Alligatur duh shet eh yeye an open eh mout fuh laugh, eh tek eh fiddle bow an, all ob er sutten, eh knock one er Buh Alligatur yeye teet outer eh head.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
17	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	eh	eh	X	GW	_	31	nsubj	_	_
19	yeye	yeye	X	NN	_	18	goeswith	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	mout	mout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
24	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
27	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
28	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
31	bow	bow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	ob	ob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
36	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
37	sutten	sutten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	40	discourse	_	_
40	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	_
44	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	flat	_	_
45	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	teet	teet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
47	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
48	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | infinitive | Rabbit | a sing |  |  |  | a pick eh chance and all ob *parataxis* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Theme |
| 2 | **bow** | present | shet eh  a wen | an |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Topic |
| 3 | **knock** | infinitive | Rabbit *not said here* | one er |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent er=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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