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title: Wid dat, Buh Rabbit git one long grape-wine, an eh tie one een roun… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wid dat, Buh Rabbit git one long grape-wine, an eh tie one een roun Buh Porpus head, an de tarruh een eh tie fus roun Buh Wolf body, an den roun him own; but eh leff de een loose, so him kin slip out. Who acts: Wid dat, een eh, Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vern
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 5

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Wid dat, Buh Rabbit git one long grape-wine, an eh tie one een roun Buh Porpus head, an de tarruh een eh tie fus roun Buh Wolf body, an den roun him own; but eh leff de een loose, so him kin slip out.

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**Who acts:** Wid dat, een eh, Buh · **What happens:** tie, slip out · **To what, where:** one Buh head, fus roun

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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 (Wid dat, een eh, 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:pg76586:8:5
# text = Wid dat, Buh Rabbit git one long grape-wine, an eh tie one een roun Buh Porpus head, an de tarruh een eh tie fus roun Buh Wolf body, an den roun him own; but eh leff de een loose, so him kin slip out.
1	Wid	Wid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	grape	grape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
15	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
17	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	compound	_	_
25	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
26	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	tie	tie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
29	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
44	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	43	flat:foreign	_	_
45	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	43	conj	_	_
46	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	so	so	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	kin	kin	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
52	out	out	ADP	RP	_	51	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | infinitive | Wid dat and a eh | one Buh head |  |  |  | a de tarruh *obl*; eh leff *obl* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 2 | **tie** | present | een eh | fus roun and Wolf body and a den roun  Buh |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roun=Patient |
| 3 | **slip out** | present | Buh |  |  |  |  | kin *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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