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title: Soon es eh back tun, Buh Rabbit slip down de tree an lean fuh home. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon es eh back tun, Buh Rabbit slip down de tree an lean fuh home. Who acts: Soon es, Buh Rabbit. 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 clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 58

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Soon es eh back tun, Buh Rabbit slip down de tree an lean fuh home.

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**Who acts:** Soon es, Buh Rabbit · **What happens:** eh back, slip down · **To what, where:** tun, de tree

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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 (Soon es, Buh Rabbit), 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:pg76586:9:58
# text = Soon es eh back tun, Buh Rabbit slip down de tree an lean fuh home.
1	Soon	soon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eh	eh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eh back** | present | Soon es | tun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slip down** | present | Buh Rabbit | de tree |  |  |  | a lean fuh home *obl* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |

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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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