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title: Buh Rabbit, him see eh chance, an eh tell ebry body him know how fuh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him see eh chance, an eh tell ebry body him know how fuh stroy um. Who acts: Rabbit, fuh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, 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 6, sentence 46

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Buh Rabbit, him see eh chance, an eh tell ebry body him know how fuh stroy um.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, fuh · **What happens:** see, know, stroy · **To what, where:** Rabbit, eh ebry body, um · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit, fuh), 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:pg76586:6:46
# text = Buh Rabbit, him see eh chance, an eh tell ebry body him know how fuh stroy um.
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	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ebry	ebry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stroy	stroy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Rabbit | Rabbit |  |  |  | eh chance and a eh ebry body *obj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus |
| 2 | **know** | present | Rabbit | a eh ebry body *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stroy** | present | fuh | um |  |  |  |  | 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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