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title: Buh Rabbit, him berry greedy, an him lub fuh tell lie. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him berry greedy, an him lub fuh tell lie. Who acts: RABBIT, fuh. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 4

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Buh Rabbit, him berry greedy, an him lub fuh tell lie.

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**Who acts:** RABBIT, fuh · **What happens:** berry, tell · **To what, where:** Rabbit, lie · **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 (RABBIT, fuh), 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:pg76586:12:4
# text = Buh Rabbit, him berry greedy, an him lub fuh tell lie.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	berry	berry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	lub	lub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **berry** | present | RABBIT | Rabbit |  |  |  | greedy *property* | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a fuh  RABBIT  lub | lie |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient |

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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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