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title: Buh Rabbit yent lub rain, an eh try fuh shelter ehself onder er oak… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit yent lub rain, an eh try fuh shelter ehself onder er oak tree wuh kibber wid long moss. Who acts: Rabbit, kibber. 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 cla
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 69

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Buh Rabbit yent lub rain, an eh try fuh shelter ehself onder er oak tree wuh kibber wid long moss.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, kibber · **What happens:** shelter, wi · **To what, where:** ehself, long moss

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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, kibber), 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:pg76586:11:69
# text = Buh Rabbit yent lub rain, an eh try fuh shelter ehself onder er oak tree wuh kibber wid long moss.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	rabbit	X	GW	_	11	nsubj	_	_
3	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	lub	lub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	shelter	shelter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	onder	onder	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
15	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
18	kibber	kibber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shelter** | infinitive | Rabbit and a eh try | ehself |  |  |  | oak tree *obl* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ehself=Patient |
| 2 | **wi** | past | kibber | long moss |  |  |  |  | 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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