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title: Wen Buh Rabbit fine eh cant git no saterfaction outer Buh Elephant,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Rabbit fine eh cant git no saterfaction outer Buh Elephant, eh cut down, an eh berry bex, an eh mek plan fuh git eeben wid Buh Elephunt fuh de big damage wuh him bin done ter um an eh fambly. Who acts: fuh git eeben. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 22

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Wen Buh Rabbit fine eh cant git no saterfaction outer Buh Elephant, eh cut down, an eh berry bex, an eh mek plan fuh git eeben wid Buh Elephunt fuh de big damage wuh him bin done ter um an eh fambly.

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**Who acts:** fuh git eeben · **What happens:** cut down, wi, do, um · **To what, where:** outer Buh, Buh, big damage, eh, fine eh cant 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 (fuh git eeben), 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:pg76586:9:22
# text = Wen Buh Rabbit fine eh cant git no saterfaction outer Buh Elephant, eh cut down, an eh berry bex, an eh mek plan fuh git eeben wid Buh Elephunt fuh de big damage wuh him bin done ter um an eh fambly.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	saterfaction	saterfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
12	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
27	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	eeben	eeben	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
34	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	36	advmod	_	_
35	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
37	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
39	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	flat	_	_
40	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
41	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	40	flat:foreign	_	_
42	um	um	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut down** | participle |  | outer Buh  no saterfaction and a eh berry bex *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wi** | past | fuh git eeben | Buh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | participle |  | big damage  Buh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **um** | infinitive |  | a eh |  |  |  | fambly *property* | 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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