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title: Eh git rale mad, an eh mek eh jump fuh graff Buh Rabbit, but Buh Rab… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh git rale mad, an eh mek eh jump fuh graff Buh Rabbit, but Buh Rabbit too quick fur um, and eh tek ter eh heel. Who acts: eh mek eh, Buh Rabbit, eh tek. 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 an
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 48

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Eh git rale mad, an eh mek eh jump fuh graff Buh Rabbit, but Buh Rabbit too quick fur um, and eh tek ter eh heel.

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**Who acts:** eh mek eh, Buh Rabbit, eh tek · **What happens:** jump, um, heel · **To what, where:** graff Buh Rabbit, Eh git rale

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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 (eh mek eh, Buh Rabbit, eh tek), 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:pg76586:9:48
# text = Eh git rale mad, an eh mek eh jump fuh graff Buh Rabbit, but Buh Rabbit too quick fur um, and eh tek ter eh heel.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rale	rale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
12	graff	graff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	eh	eh	X	FW	_	26	compound	_	_
26	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	ter	ter	X	FW	_	29	compound	_	_
28	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | infinitive | a eh mek eh | graff Buh Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **um** |  | Buh Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **heel** |  | eh tek |  |  |  |  |  | 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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