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title: So Buh Rabbit mek up eh mine fuh slip een de do pass Buh Wolf, an se… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Buh Rabbit mek up eh mine fuh slip een de do pass Buh Wolf, an set een him house tel de rain done ober. Who acts: mek fuh slip. 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 eve
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 73

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So Buh Rabbit mek up eh mine fuh slip een de do pass Buh Wolf, an set een him house tel de rain done ober.

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**Who acts:** mek fuh slip · **What happens:** pass, do · **To what, where:** Buh house tel, ober

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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 (mek fuh slip), 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:pg76586:11:73
# text = So Buh Rabbit mek up eh mine fuh slip een de do pass Buh Wolf, an set een him house tel de rain done ober.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	list	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
24	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
26	ober	ober	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | present · do-support | mek fuh slip | Buh house tel |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tel=Trajectory |
| 2 | **do** | participle | mek fuh slip *not said here* | ober |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ober=Eventuality |

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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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