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title: But eh yent leh Buh Rabbit see dat eh spicion anyting, an eh tell um… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: But eh yent leh Buh Rabbit see dat eh spicion anyting, an eh tell um fuh go head an mek eh soup. Who acts: yent leh. 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 88

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But eh yent leh Buh Rabbit see dat eh spicion anyting, an eh tell um fuh go head an mek eh soup.

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**Who acts:** yent leh · **What happens:** see, go · **To what, where:** dat, head

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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 (yent leh), 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:pg76586:6:88
# text = But eh yent leh Buh Rabbit see dat eh spicion anyting, an eh tell um fuh go head an mek eh soup.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	leh	leh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	spicion	spicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	anyting	anything	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | yent leh | dat and eh spicion anyting |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dat=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | yent leh *not said here* | head |  |  |  | a mek eh soup *obl* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme |

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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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