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title: Ebber sence dat time wen Buh Wolf ketch Buh Rabbit duh tief water ou… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ebber sence dat time wen Buh Wolf ketch Buh Rabbit duh tief water outer him spring, an eh bin tie um ter de spakleberry bush an lick um, Buh Rabbit hate Buh Wolf an mek plan fuh git eben wid um. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Open
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 80

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Ebber sence dat time wen Buh Wolf ketch Buh Rabbit duh tief water outer him spring, an eh bin tie um ter de spakleberry bush an lick um, Buh Rabbit hate Buh Wolf an mek plan fuh git eben wid um.

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**What happens:** tie, bush · **To what, where:** eh bin, lick um, dat time wen

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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 7. 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:pg76586:7:80
# text = Ebber sence dat time wen Buh Wolf ketch Buh Rabbit duh tief water outer him spring, an eh bin tie um ter de spakleberry bush an lick um, Buh Rabbit hate Buh Wolf an mek plan fuh git eben wid um.
1	Ebber	Ebber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	sence	sence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	tief	tief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
16	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
21	tie	tie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	um	um	X	FW	_	23	compound	_	_
23	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	compound	_	_
25	spakleberry	spakleberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	bush	bush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	lick	lick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	hate	hate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
34	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
35	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
39	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	eben	eben	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
42	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | present |  | a eh bin |  |  | spring | um ter *obj*; de spakleberry *obj* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent ter=Patient spakleberry=Result |
| 2 | **bush** | infinitive |  | a lick 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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