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title: Buh Rabbit tell um eh hab one mo fuh bactize befo sun down, but eh w… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit tell um eh hab one mo fuh bactize befo sun down, but eh wunt tek um long becase eh lib close by. Who acts: Rabbit, wunt tek. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 156

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Buh Rabbit tell um eh hab one mo fuh bactize befo sun down, but eh wunt tek um long becase eh lib close by.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, wunt tek · **What happens:** tell, becase · **To what, where:** eh hab, eh lib · **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 (Rabbit, wunt tek), 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:pg76586:5:156
# text = Buh Rabbit tell um eh hab one mo fuh bactize befo sun down, but eh wunt tek um long becase eh lib close by.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bactize	bactize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
11	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wunt	wunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	um	um	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
21	becase	becase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	lib	lib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Rabbit | eh hab |  |  |  | befo sun; mo fuh bactize *ccomp*; down *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hab=Recipient |
| 2 | **becase** | present | eh wunt tek | eh lib |  |  |  |  | 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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