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title: An dat de way Buh Rabbit come fuh hab er leely tuff er white hair be… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: An dat de way Buh Rabbit come fuh hab er leely tuff er white hair between eh yez. Who acts: dat. 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 129

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An dat de way Buh Rabbit come fuh hab er leely tuff er white hair between eh yez.

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**Who acts:** dat · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** tuff white hair

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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 (dat), 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:pg76586:9:129
# text = An dat de way Buh Rabbit come fuh hab er leely tuff er white hair between eh yez.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
9	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	_
10	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	leely	leely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tuff	tuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
13	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
18	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | a dat  de way | tuff white hair |  |  |  | hab *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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