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title: Buh Rabbit, him berry lub fuh tief, an eh mek eh plan fuh git some e… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him berry lub fuh tief, an eh mek eh plan fuh git some er dat butter. Who acts: shame, some. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 108

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Buh Rabbit, him berry lub fuh tief, an eh mek eh plan fuh git some er dat butter.

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**Who acts:** shame, some · **What happens:** berry, er · **To what, where:** Rabbit, dat butter

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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 (shame, some), 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:pg76586:5:108
# text = Buh Rabbit, him berry lub fuh tief, an eh mek eh plan fuh git some er dat butter.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	berry	berry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	lub	lub	X	FW	_	8	compound	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	tief	tief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
18	er	er	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **berry** | present | shame | Rabbit |  |  |  | lub tief *obj* | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tief=Location |
| 2 | **er** | present | some | dat butter |  |  |  |  | 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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