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title: Soon es dem pass tru de big gate, Buh Rabbit, him gedder de range in… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon es dem pass tru de big gate, Buh Rabbit, him gedder de range in eh han, an eh slap spur to Buh Wolf. Who acts: Soon es, Buh Rabbit. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 102

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Soon es dem pass tru de big gate, Buh Rabbit, him gedder de range in eh han, an eh slap spur to Buh Wolf.

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**Who acts:** Soon es, Buh Rabbit · **What happens:** pass, range · **To what, where:** tru big gate, eh han

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soon es, Buh Rabbit), 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:pg76586:3:102
# text = Soon es dem pass tru de big gate, Buh Rabbit, him gedder de range in eh han, an eh slap spur to Buh Wolf.
1	Soon	soon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	tru	tru	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	amod	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	conj	_	_
14	gedder	gedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	slap	slap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	spur	spur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | present | Soon es | tru big gate |  |  |  | dem *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Trajectory |
| 2 | **range** |  | Buh Rabbit  dem |  |  | eh han |  | a eh slap spur to Buh Wolf *conj* | 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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