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title: Eh meet Buh Rabbit duh siddown day duh wait fuh hire somebody fuh ca… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh meet Buh Rabbit duh siddown day duh wait fuh hire somebody fuh cahr him meat ter him house. Who acts: Eh. 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 153

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Eh meet Buh Rabbit duh siddown day duh wait fuh hire somebody fuh cahr him meat ter him house.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** meet, wait, hire · **To what, where:** Buh Rabbit, somebody fuh cahr

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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 (Eh), 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:pg76586:2:153
# text = Eh meet Buh Rabbit duh siddown day duh wait fuh hire somebody fuh cahr him meat ter him house.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
6	siddown	siddown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	hire	hire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
12	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	compound	_	_
13	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cahr	cahr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
17	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | Eh | Buh Rabbit |  |  | day |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hire** | present |  | somebody fuh cahr  RABBIT |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cahr=Theme |

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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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