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title: So dey gree, an Buh Rabbit gone home long eh fish. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: So dey gree, an Buh Rabbit gone home long eh fish. Who acts: dey, Buh Rabbit. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 88

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So dey gree, an Buh Rabbit gone home long eh fish.

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**Who acts:** dey, Buh Rabbit · **What happens:** gree, go · **To what, where:** Buh Rabbit, long eh fish

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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 (dey, Buh Rabbit), 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:pg76586:7:88
# text = So dey gree, an Buh Rabbit gone home long eh fish.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gree	gree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gree** | infinitive | dey | a Buh Rabbit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | participle | a Buh Rabbit *not said here* | long eh fish |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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