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title: Dat de way Buh Rabbit tek eh rewenge on Buh Elephunt case eh mash eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dat de way Buh Rabbit tek eh rewenge on Buh Elephunt case eh mash eh chillun, an dat de reason huccum Buh Elephunt hab flop yez tel ter-day. Who acts: Buh hab. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tr
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 32

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Dat de way Buh Rabbit tek eh rewenge on Buh Elephunt case eh mash eh chillun, an dat de reason huccum Buh Elephunt hab flop yez tel ter-day.

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**Who acts:** Buh hab · **What happens:** rewenge, flop · **To what, where:** way Rabbit tek, case eh mash, yez

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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 (Buh hab), 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:pg76586:9:32
# text = Dat de way Buh Rabbit tek eh rewenge on Buh Elephunt case eh mash eh chillun, an dat de reason huccum Buh Elephunt hab flop yez tel ter-day.
1	Dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	eh	eh	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
8	rewenge	rewenge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mash	mash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
20	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	huccum	huccum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
23	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	flop	flop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	tel	tel	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	flat:foreign	_	_
29	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rewenge** | present |  | way Rabbit tek |  | case eh mash  Buh and chillun and a dat reason huccum |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flop** | present | Buh hab | yez  ter day |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yez=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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