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title: Eh up an tell Buh Rabbit: “Dat cow meat no good. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh up an tell Buh Rabbit: “Dat cow meat no good. 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 155

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Eh up an tell Buh Rabbit: “Dat cow meat no good.

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**To what, where:** Buh Rabbit

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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: 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:pg76586:2:155
# text = Eh up an tell Buh Rabbit: “Dat cow meat no good.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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