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title: Buh Rabbit, him lib offer de noung grass, an Buh Elephunt, him eat d… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him lib offer de noung grass, an Buh Elephunt, him eat de tree limb. Who acts: lemme. 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 12

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Buh Rabbit, him lib offer de noung grass, an Buh Elephunt, him eat de tree limb.

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**Who acts:** lemme · **What happens:** offer, eat · **To what, where:** him lib, de tree limb

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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 (lemme), 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:pg76586:9:12
# text = Buh Rabbit, him lib offer de noung grass, an Buh Elephunt, him eat de tree limb.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	compound	_	_
5	lib	lib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	dep	_	_
8	noung	noung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **offer** | present |  | him lib |  |  |  | Rabbit *vocative*; noung grass *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent grass=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present | lemme | de tree limb |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limb=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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