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title: Eh dig eh paw een de san, an eh holler ter Buh Rabbit fuh tun um loo… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh dig eh paw een de san, an eh holler ter Buh Rabbit fuh tun um loose; but Buh Rabbit wouldnt tetch um, an so Buh Porpus drag um, duh scuffle an duh holler, clean een de ribber an onder de water, an drown Buh Wolf. Who acts: Eh, Buh Rabbit, Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 10

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Eh dig eh paw een de san, an eh holler ter Buh Rabbit fuh tun um loose; but Buh Rabbit wouldnt tetch um, an so Buh Porpus drag um, duh scuffle an duh holler, clean een de ribber an onder de water, an drown Buh Wolf.

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**Who acts:** Eh, Buh Rabbit, Buh · **What happens:** dig, um, drag, scuffle, drown · **To what, where:** eh paw, um, duh holler, Buh Wolf

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh, Buh Rabbit, Buh), 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:pg76586:8:10
# text = Eh dig eh paw een de san, an eh holler ter Buh Rabbit fuh tun um loose; but Buh Rabbit wouldnt tetch um, an so Buh Porpus drag um, duh scuffle an duh holler, clean een de ribber an onder de water, an drown Buh Wolf.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	_
7	san	san	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
18	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	wouldnt	wouldnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	tetch	tetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	appos	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	drag	drag	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	_
35	scuffle	scuffle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
41	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	43	amod	_	_
42	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	41	flat	_	_
43	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
44	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	onder	onder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	45	flat:foreign	_	_
47	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	drown	drown	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
51	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | present | Eh | eh paw |  |  |  | a eh holler ter fuh tun um  Buh Rabbit *conj* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent paw=Theme |
| 2 | **um** |  | Buh Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drag** | present | Buh | um |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
| 4 | **scuffle** | infinitive |  | a duh holler |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drown** | present |  | Buh Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient |

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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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