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title: Den Buh Rabbit tell um fuh step ter him house an fetch eh fanner fuh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Rabbit tell um fuh step ter him house an fetch eh fanner fuh ketch de pussimmon es eh pick um an drap um. Who acts: Den, ketch, pussimmon es. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 56

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Den Buh Rabbit tell um fuh step ter him house an fetch eh fanner fuh ketch de pussimmon es eh pick um an drap um.

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**Who acts:** Den, ketch, pussimmon es · **What happens:** tell, e, pick, drap · **To what, where:** um · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Den, ketch, pussimmon es), 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:pg76586:9:56
# text = Den Buh Rabbit tell um fuh step ter him house an fetch eh fanner fuh ketch de pussimmon es eh pick um an drap um.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	fetch	fetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	fanner	fanner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
16	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat:foreign	_	_
18	pussimmon	pussimmon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
20	eh	eh	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
25	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Den | um |  |  |  | fuh step house  a eh fanner *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |
| 2 | **e** |  | ketch |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pick** | infinitive | pussimmon es *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |
| 4 | **drap** | present | pussimmon es *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | 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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