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title: Buh Rabbit git ehself one long stick an eh gone der wood. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit git ehself one long stick an eh gone der wood. Who acts: Rabbit git. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, 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 9, sentence 109

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Buh Rabbit git ehself one long stick an eh gone der wood.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit git · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** der wood

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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 (Rabbit git), 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:pg76586:9:109
# text = Buh Rabbit git ehself one long stick an eh gone der wood.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle | Rabbit git  ehself | der wood |  |  |  | one long stick *nsubj*; a eh *nsubj* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wood=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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