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title: Buh Rabbit tun um dest by de piazza, an eh light off eh back, an eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit tun um dest by de piazza, an eh light off eh back, an eh run up ter de Gal, an eh say: “Wuh you tink er me farruh ridin horse?” Who acts: Rabbit tun um, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, with its depe
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 109

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Buh Rabbit tun um dest by de piazza, an eh light off eh back, an eh run up ter de Gal, an eh say: “Wuh you tink er me farruh ridin horse?”

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**Who acts:** Rabbit tun um, you · **What happens:** run up, say, tink · **To what, where:** eh, Rabbit tun um · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit tun um, you), 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:pg76586:3:109
# text = Buh Rabbit tun um dest by de piazza, an eh light off eh back, an eh run up ter de Gal, an eh say: “Wuh you tink er me farruh ridin horse?”
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
5	dest	d	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	piazza	piazza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
22	de	de	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	tink	tink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
33	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
35	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	37	discourse	_	_
36	ridin	ridin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	compound	_	_
37	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run up** | participle |  | a eh *not said here* |  |  |  | ter *compound*; Gal *obl:agent* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Rabbit tun um and a eh light and a eh and a eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tink** *in a quote* | present | you | Rabbit tun um and a eh light and a eh and a eh *= um* |  |  |  | ridin horse *parataxis* | 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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