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title: Buh Rabbit leh Buh Pattridge git er leely way ahead er um es dem gwi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit leh Buh Pattridge git er leely way ahead er um es dem gwine back ter de spot way de Cow bin kill, an wen eh come up eh say: “Hi! Who acts: um es. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 13

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Buh Rabbit leh Buh Pattridge git er leely way ahead er um es dem gwine back ter de spot way de Cow bin kill, an wen eh come up eh say: “Hi!

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**Who acts:** um es · **What happens:** come up, say · **To what, where:** leely way · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (um es), 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:pg76586:12:13
# text = Buh Rabbit leh Buh Pattridge git er leely way ahead er um es dem gwine back ter de spot way de Cow bin kill, an wen eh come up eh say: “Hi!
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	leh	leh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	leely	leely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	um	um	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
14	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
19	spot	spot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	de	de	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	Cow	Cow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
30	up	up	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
34	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | present | um es  ter and spot way de Cow bin kill and a wen eh and dem gwine | leely way  Pattridge git *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | um es  ter and spot way de Cow bin kill and a wen eh and dem gwine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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