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title: Buh Rabbit so light eh gone out on one leely limb way Buh Wolf could… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit so light eh gone out on one leely limb way Buh Wolf couldnt foller um ner retch um. Who acts: light, one, Buh um ner. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 50

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Buh Rabbit so light eh gone out on one leely limb way Buh Wolf couldnt foller um ner retch um.

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**Who acts:** light, one, Buh um ner · **What happens:** go out, limb, retch · **To what, where:** Rabbit, way, um

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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 (light, one, Buh um ner), 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:pg76586:9:50
# text = Buh Rabbit so light eh gone out on one leely limb way Buh Wolf couldnt foller um ner retch um.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
10	leely	leely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
11	limb	limb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	foller	foller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	retch	retch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | participle | light | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **limb** | present | one | way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **retch** | present | Buh um ner | um |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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