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title: Soon as Buh Rabbit git outer yearin, Buh Pattridge whistle fuh him c… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon as Buh Rabbit git outer yearin, Buh Pattridge whistle fuh him chillun. 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 165

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Soon as Buh Rabbit git outer yearin, Buh Pattridge whistle fuh him chillun.

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**What happens:** whistle · **To what, where:** chillun, Buh

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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:pg76586:2:165
# text = Soon as Buh Rabbit git outer yearin, Buh Pattridge whistle fuh him chillun.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	yearin	yearin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	whistle	whistle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
14	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whistle** | present |  | chillun | Buh |  |  | soon *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary chillun=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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