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title: Buh Rabbit no bin day at de time, an wen eh git back eh fine eh nes… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit no bin day at de time, an wen eh git back eh fine eh nes done broke up, an all tree eh chillun squash flat. Who acts: Rabbit, tree. 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 pragma
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 18

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Buh Rabbit no bin day at de time, an wen eh git back eh fine eh nes done broke up, an all tree eh chillun squash flat.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, tree · **What happens:** do, break up, squash · **To what, where:** fine eh nes, eh git

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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 (Rabbit, tree), 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:pg76586:9:18
# text = Buh Rabbit no bin day at de time, an wen eh git back eh fine eh nes done broke up, an all tree eh chillun squash flat.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	de	de	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	nes	ne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	squash	squash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
29	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  | fine eh nes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **break up** | past | Rabbit | a eh git |  |  |  | fine eh nes *nsubj* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **squash** | present | a tree eh chillun |  |  |  |  | flat *property* | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: 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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