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title: Buh Rabbit an Buh Porpus bin good fren, an many er time Buh Porpus b… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit an Buh Porpus bin good fren, an many er time Buh Porpus blan gie Buh Rabbit some er de fish wuh him der ketch. Who acts: Rabbit, fish. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 82

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Buh Rabbit an Buh Porpus bin good fren, an many er time Buh Porpus blan gie Buh Rabbit some er de fish wuh him der ketch.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, fish · **What happens:** bin, gie, ketch · **To what, where:** good fren

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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: who acts (Rabbit, fish), 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:pg76586:7:82
# text = Buh Rabbit an Buh Porpus bin good fren, an many er time Buh Porpus blan gie Buh Rabbit some er de fish wuh him der ketch.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fren	fren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	blan	blan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	list	_	_
17	gie	gie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	flat:foreign	_	_
23	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gie** | present |  | good fren |  |  | time | Buh Rabbit *obj*; some er and der ketch *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ketch** |  | fish  RABBIT |  |  |  |  |  | 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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