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title: Buh Rabbit run day, an eh tell um say dog bin on eh track, an dat de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit run day, an eh tell um say dog bin on eh track, an dat dem mose git day. Who acts: Buh, eh tell um. 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 clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 37

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Buh Rabbit run day, an eh tell um say dog bin on eh track, an dat dem mose git day.

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**Who acts:** Buh, eh tell um · **What happens:** run, say, mose · **To what, where:** dog bin, eh track · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Buh, eh tell um), 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:pg76586:11:37
# text = Buh Rabbit run day, an eh tell um say dog bin on eh track, an dat dem mose git day.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	mose	mose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
21	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | Buh |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a eh tell um | dog bin |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bin=Topic |
| 3 | **mose** | present |  |  |  | eh track and a dat dem | day |  | tree rules |

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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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