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title: Buh Rabbit holler, an een eh pull way eh leff eh tail een de crawfis… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit holler, an een eh pull way eh leff eh tail een de crawfish claw. Who acts: Rabbit holler, leff. 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 2

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Buh Rabbit holler, an een eh pull way eh leff eh tail een de crawfish claw.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit holler, leff · **What happens:** pull, een · **To what, where:** way

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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 holler, leff), 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:pg76586:9:2
# text = Buh Rabbit holler, an een eh pull way eh leff eh tail een de crawfish claw.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	een	een	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
16	crawfish	crawfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | present | Rabbit holler | way |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 2 | **een** |  | leff |  |  |  |  | de crawfish claw *appos* | tree rules |

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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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