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title: But Buh Rabbit scuse ehself, an light out fer him house, an leff Buh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Buh Rabbit scuse ehself, an light out fer him house, an leff Buh Wolf een de fiel. Who acts: Buh Rabbit. 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 164

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But Buh Rabbit scuse ehself, an light out fer him house, an leff Buh Wolf een de fiel.

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**Who acts:** Buh Rabbit · **What happens:** scuse · **To what, where:** ehself

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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 (Buh Rabbit), 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:pg76586:5:164
# text = But Buh Rabbit scuse ehself, an light out fer him house, an leff Buh Wolf een de fiel.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	scuse	scuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	list	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	compound	_	_
20	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scuse** | present | Buh Rabbit | ehself |  |  |  | fer house and a leff *obj* | 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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