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title: De Cunjur Man rale suprise, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, me always bin ye… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Cunjur Man rale suprise, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, me always bin yeddy say you bin hab heap er sense, but now me know dat you got um. Who acts: Man rale suprise, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, with its depen
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 117

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De Cunjur Man rale suprise, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, me always bin yeddy say you bin hab heap er sense, but now me know dat you got um.

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**Who acts:** Man rale suprise, you · **What happens:** say, bin, know, get · **To what, where:** Rabbit, yeddy, hab heap · **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 (Man rale suprise, you), 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:pg76586:9:117
# text = De Cunjur Man rale suprise, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, me always bin yeddy say you bin hab heap er sense, but now me know dat you got um.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Cunjur	Cunjur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	rale	rale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	suprise	suprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
18	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
22	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
31	dat	dat	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
34	um	um	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Man rale suprise | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | Man rale suprise *= suprise* | yeddy |  |  |  | always *property* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yeddy=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | you | hab heap and er sense |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent heap=Theme |
| 5 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Man rale suprise *= suprise* |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **get** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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