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title: De meat bin good, an Buh Pattridge only do dat fuh fool Buh Rabbit a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De meat bin good, an Buh Pattridge only do dat fuh fool Buh Rabbit an git him share too. Who acts: Buh Pattridge, bin. 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 168

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De meat bin good, an Buh Pattridge only do dat fuh fool Buh Rabbit an git him share too.

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**Who acts:** Buh Pattridge, bin · **What happens:** do, share · **To what, where:** dat, git

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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 Pattridge, bin), 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:pg76586:2:168
# text = De meat bin good, an Buh Pattridge only do dat fuh fool Buh Rabbit an git him share too.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	dat	dat	X	GW	_	10	obj	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | a Buh Pattridge | dat |  |  |  | fuh fool and a git *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **share** | present | bin | a git *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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