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title: Den Buh Rabbit slip roun ter Buh Wolf house an clean up de las er de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Rabbit slip roun ter Buh Wolf house an clean up de las er de butter. Who acts: Den. 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 157

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Den Buh Rabbit slip roun ter Buh Wolf house an clean up de las er de butter.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** slip, clean up · **To what, where:** ter Wolf house, las

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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), 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:pg76586:5:157
# text = Den Buh Rabbit slip roun ter Buh Wolf house an clean up de las er de butter.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	roun	roun	X	FW	_	6	compound	_	_
6	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	clean	clean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	nmod	_	_
14	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	er	er	X	FW	_	17	compound	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
17	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** | present | Den | ter Wolf house |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 2 | **clean up** | present | Den *not said here* | las  de  er butter |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent la=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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