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title: Buh Rabbit tink say de pizen meat been a wuk in um, an eh hop off, a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit tink say de pizen meat been a wuk in um, an eh hop off, an eh fetch water, an eh trow um in Buh Pattridge face. Who acts: Buh, pizen meat. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 162

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Buh Rabbit tink say de pizen meat been a wuk in um, an eh hop off, an eh fetch water, an eh trow um in Buh Pattridge face.

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**Who acts:** Buh, pizen meat · **What happens:** say off, be, trow · **To what, where:** de, wuk, um, Buh face · **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 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, pizen meat), 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:pg76586:2:162
# text = Buh Rabbit tink say de pizen meat been a wuk in um, an eh hop off, an eh fetch water, an eh trow um in Buh Pattridge face.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tink	tink	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	pizen	pizen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hop	hop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	fetch	fetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	trow	trow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
27	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say off** *speech: assert* | present | Buh | de |  |  |  | a eh fetch water and a eh *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | participle | pizen meat | a wuk and a eh hop |  | um |  | a eh hop *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **trow** | infinitive |  | um |  | Buh face |  |  | 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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