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title: De nex time Buh Rabbit gone der well long him calabash fuh git some… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De nex time Buh Rabbit gone der well long him calabash fuh git some water, de fus ting eh know de crawfish grab um by eh tail. Who acts: Buh, de, De nex time. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tre
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 1

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De nex time Buh Rabbit gone der well long him calabash fuh git some water, de fus ting eh know de crawfish grab um by eh tail.

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**Who acts:** Buh, de, De nex time · **What happens:** git, eh, know, grab · **To what, where:** water, um · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh, de, De nex time), 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:pg76586:9:1
# text = De nex time Buh Rabbit gone der well long him calabash fuh git some water, de fus ting eh know de crawfish grab um by eh tail.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	der	der	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	list	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	nsubj	_	_
18	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	de	de	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	crawfish	crawfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
24	grab	grab	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **git** |  | Buh | some water |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eh** |  | de |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | present | De nex time |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **grab** | present |  | um |  |  |  | de crawfish; by eh tail | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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