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title: Den Buh Rabbit up an tell um say eh hab gagement fur bactize nurrur… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Rabbit up an tell um say eh hab gagement fur bactize nurrur chile at dis berry hour, an eh mose bin furgit bout um tell eh murrer an eh farruh holler ter um outer de wood an member um. Who acts: Den, tell um, furgit bout um. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vern
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 139

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Den Buh Rabbit up an tell um say eh hab gagement fur bactize nurrur chile at dis berry hour, an eh mose bin furgit bout um tell eh murrer an eh farruh holler ter um outer de wood an member um.

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**Who acts:** Den, tell um, furgit bout um · **What happens:** rabbit up, say, mose, tell · **To what, where:** bin, eh murrer · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, tell um, furgit bout um), 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:pg76586:5:139
# text = Den Buh Rabbit up an tell um say eh hab gagement fur bactize nurrur chile at dis berry hour, an eh mose bin furgit bout um tell eh murrer an eh farruh holler ter um outer de wood an member um.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	rabbit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
10	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	gagement	gagement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bactize	bactize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	nurrur	nurrur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	chile	chile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
23	mose	mose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
24	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	furgit	furgit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
29	eh	eh	X	FW	_	30	compound	_	_
30	murrer	murrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	farruh	farruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
35	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	36	flat:foreign	_	_
36	um	um	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	appos	_	_
37	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	39	compound	_	_
39	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rabbit up** | present | Den |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a tell um |  |  |  |  | bactize nurrur chile at dis berry hour and a eh *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **mose** | infinitive |  | bin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | furgit bout um | eh murrer |  |  |  | a eh farruh holler *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent murrer=Recipient holler=Topic |

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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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