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title: Buh Rabbit graff eh big horn, an eh answer back tru um wid all eh st… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit graff eh big horn, an eh answer back tru um wid all eh strenk: “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 98

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Buh Rabbit graff eh big horn, an eh answer back tru um wid all eh strenk: “Better man den ebber bin yuh befo.”

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**To what, where:** graff big horn

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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:pg76586:5:98
# text = Buh Rabbit graff eh big horn, an eh answer back tru um wid all eh strenk: “Better man den ebber bin yuh befo.”
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	graff	graff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	tru	tru	X	FW	_	13	compound	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nmod	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	strenk	strenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
23	ebber	ebb	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	yuh	yuh	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
26	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	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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