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title: Buh Pattridge tek one half; Buh Rabbit, him tek tarruh half. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Pattridge tek one half; Buh Rabbit, him tek tarruh half. Who acts: Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2, 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 2, sentence 149

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Buh Pattridge tek one half; Buh Rabbit, him tek tarruh half.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** tek · **To what, where:** one half

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh), 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:pg76586:2:149
# text = Buh Pattridge tek one half; Buh Rabbit, him tek tarruh half.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tek	tek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	compound	_	_
11	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	tarruh	tarruh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
13	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tek** | infinitive | Buh | one half |  |  |  | Buh Rabbit *obl* | 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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