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title: Buh Rabbit up an tell um say eh name _Scrapin er de bottom_. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit up an tell um say eh name _Scrapin er de bottom_. Who acts: you, tell um. 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 160

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Buh Rabbit up an tell um say eh name \_Scrapin er de bottom\_.

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**Who acts:** you, tell um · **What happens:** rabbit up, say · **To what, where:** eh name · **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 (you, tell 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:pg76586:5:160
# text = Buh Rabbit up an tell um say eh name _Scrapin er de bottom_.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	rabbit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Scrapin	Scrapin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	advmod	_	_
14	bottom	bottom	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rabbit up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a tell um | eh name |  |  |  | Scrapin er *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=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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