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title: Man sir! befo Buh Rattlesnake fine out, Buh Rabbit slip one noose ro… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Man sir! befo Buh Rattlesnake fine out, Buh Rabbit slip one noose roun eh neck an fastne um tight ter de een der de pole. Who acts: Buh. 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 o
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 114

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Man sir! befo Buh Rattlesnake fine out, Buh Rabbit slip one noose roun eh neck an fastne um tight ter de een der de pole.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** slip · **To what, where:** one noose, Man sir

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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), 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:pg76586:9:114
# text = Man sir! befo Buh Rattlesnake fine out, Buh Rabbit slip one noose roun eh neck an fastne um tight ter de een der de pole.
1	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	befo	befo	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	Rattlesnake	Rattlesnake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	noose	noose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	roun	roun	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	dep	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	fastne	fastne	X	FW	_	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ter	ter	X	FW	_	25	compound	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	flat:foreign	_	_
24	een	een	X	FW	_	25	compound	_	_
25	der	der	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	flat:foreign	_	_
27	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** | present | Buh and Buh Rabbit | one noose and eh neck |  |  |  | a fastne um *obl* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent noose=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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