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title: Dem did leff, an dem yent fine out tel dis day dat eh been Buh Rabbi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem did leff, an dem yent fine out tel dis day dat eh been Buh Rabbit wuh fool um, an dat no Sperit bin day none tall. Who acts: Dem, Buh Rabbit. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 101

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Dem did leff, an dem yent fine out tel dis day dat eh been Buh Rabbit wuh fool um, an dat no Sperit bin day none tall.

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**Who acts:** Dem, Buh Rabbit · **What happens:** do, be, fool · **To what, where:** leff, Buh Rabbit, um

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dem, 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:pg76586:5:101
# text = Dem did leff, an dem yent fine out tel dis day dat eh been Buh Rabbit wuh fool um, an dat no Sperit bin day none tall.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	leff	leff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
18	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	fool	fool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
25	Sperit	Sperit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	29	nsubj	_	_
29	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Dem | leff |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leff=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | Buh Rabbit and a dat |  |  |  | fine day dat *nmod:desc*; a dat *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fool** | infinitive | Buh Rabbit and a dat *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |

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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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