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title: Den Buh Rabbit tek eh biggis horn, an eh holler tru um so loud eh me… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Rabbit tek eh biggis horn, an eh holler tru um so loud eh mek de house shake: “Better man den ebber bin yuh befo.” 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 88

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Den Buh Rabbit tek eh biggis horn, an eh holler tru um so loud eh mek de house shake: “Better man den ebber bin yuh befo.”

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**To what, where:** holler tru um

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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: 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:pg76586:5:88
# text = Den Buh Rabbit tek eh biggis horn, an eh holler tru um so loud eh mek de house shake: “Better man den ebber bin yuh befo.”
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
5	eh	eh	X	GW	_	1	flat	_	_
6	biggis	biggis	X	FW	_	7	compound	_	_
7	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	tru	tru	X	FW	_	13	compound	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
18	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	shake	shake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
26	ebber	ebb	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	yuh	yuh	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
29	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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