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title: One day Buh Elephunt bin er hunt eh bittle, an eh gone miss an mash… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day Buh Elephunt bin er hunt eh bittle, an eh gone miss an mash topper Buh Rabbit nes, an kill eh chillun. 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 17

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One day Buh Elephunt bin er hunt eh bittle, an eh gone miss an mash topper Buh Rabbit nes, an kill eh chillun.

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**What happens:** bin, hunt, go, miss · **To what, where:** eh, bittle, mash topper

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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: 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:pg76586:9:17
# text = One day Buh Elephunt bin er hunt eh bittle, an eh gone miss an mash topper Buh Rabbit nes, an kill eh chillun.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	er	er	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bittle	bittle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	mash	mash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	nes	ne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present |  | a eh |  |  | day |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hunt** | infinitive |  | eh bittle |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bittle=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | participle |  | a eh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **miss** | infinitive |  | a mash topper  Buh Rabbit nes  a eh chillun |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer topper=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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