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title: De Cunjur Man mek er great miration ober wuh Buh Rabbit bin done, an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Cunjur Man mek er great miration ober wuh Buh Rabbit bin done, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, you is suttenly de smartest ob all de animel, an you sense shill git mo an mo ebry day. Who acts: eh, Rabbit, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. J
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 127

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De Cunjur Man mek er great miration ober wuh Buh Rabbit bin done, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, you is suttenly de smartest ob all de animel, an you sense shill git mo an mo ebry day.

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**Who acts:** eh, Rabbit, you · **What happens:** do, say, be, sense · **To what, where:** Rabbit bin, de smartest ob, git mo, great miration ober · **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 (eh, Rabbit, 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:pg76586:9:127
# text = De Cunjur Man mek er great miration ober wuh Buh Rabbit bin done, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, you is suttenly de smartest ob all de animel, an you sense shill git mo an mo ebry day.
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	8	nsubj	_	_
4	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	miration	miration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
21	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	conj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	suttenly	suttenly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	compound	_	_
27	smartest	smart	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	ob	ob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	compound	_	_
31	animel	animel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	sense	sense	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	shill	shill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	ebry	ebry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  | Rabbit bin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Rabbit  you | de smartest ob |  |  |  | all de animel *appos*; suttenly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sense** *in a quote* | present | you | git mo |  |  | day |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mo=Stimulus |

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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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