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title: Buh Rabbit, him bin a dodge bout way nobody kin shum, duh notus wuh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him bin a dodge bout way nobody kin shum, duh notus wuh gwine on, an bin a mek eh plan. Who acts: Wen, nobody. 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 68

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Buh Rabbit, him bin a dodge bout way nobody kin shum, duh notus wuh gwine on, an bin a mek eh plan.

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**Who acts:** Wen, nobody · **What happens:** bin on, kin · **To what, where:** Rabbit, shum

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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 (Wen, nobody), 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:pg76586:5:68
# text = Buh Rabbit, him bin a dodge bout way nobody kin shum, duh notus wuh gwine on, an bin a mek eh plan.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	dodge	dodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
11	kin	kin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	shum	shum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
17	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin on** | present | Wen | Rabbit |  |  |  | a bin *obl*; a bout way *obj*; notus gwine *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kin** | present | nobody | shum |  |  |  |  | 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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