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title: Wen eh retch eh house eh quire bout Buh Rabbit, an eh wife tell um w… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh retch eh house eh quire bout Buh Rabbit, an eh wife tell um wuh Buh Rabbit bin er say an er do, an dat Buh Rabbit gone der fiel dist arter brukwus. Who acts: Wen, eh wife, Buh, er. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, pa
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 58

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Wen eh retch eh house eh quire bout Buh Rabbit, an eh wife tell um wuh Buh Rabbit bin er say an er do, an dat Buh Rabbit gone der fiel dist arter brukwus.

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**Who acts:** Wen, eh wife, Buh, er · **What happens:** retch, tell, say, do · **To what, where:** eh house, um, dat · **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 (Wen, eh wife, Buh, er), 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:pg76586:6:58
# text = Wen eh retch eh house eh quire bout Buh Rabbit, an eh wife tell um wuh Buh Rabbit bin er say an er do, an dat Buh Rabbit gone der fiel dist arter brukwus.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	retch	retch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	eh	eh	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	quire	quire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	bout	Bout	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
18	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
21	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
30	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
32	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	amod	_	_
33	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
34	dist	dist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	brukwus	brukwus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retch** | infinitive | Wen | eh house |  |  |  | eh bout  quire *obl* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a eh wife | um |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent um=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** | present | a er | a dat |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Eventuality |

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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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