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title: Den Buh Rabbit, him slip een de hole wid er leely calabash, an eh ke… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Rabbit, him slip een de hole wid er leely calabash, an eh ketch de water duh run down from Buh Deer yeye. Who acts: Den. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 39

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Den Buh Rabbit, him slip een de hole wid er leely calabash, an eh ketch de water duh run down from Buh Deer yeye.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** slip, run down · **To what, where:** een hole, Deer yeye

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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 (Den), 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:pg76586:11:39
# text = Den Buh Rabbit, him slip een de hole wid er leely calabash, an eh ketch de water duh run down from Buh Deer yeye.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	amod	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat	_	_
9	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	leely	leely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	compound	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
21	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** | present | Den | een hole |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
| 2 | **run down** | infinitive | Den *not said here* |  |  | Deer yeye |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from yeye=Trajectory |

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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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