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title: Eh tek a smart somebody fuh head Buh Rabbit. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh tek a smart somebody fuh head Buh Rabbit. Who acts: somebody. 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 63

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Eh tek a smart somebody fuh head Buh Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** somebody · **What happens:** head · **To what, where:** head Buh

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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 (somebody), 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:pg76586:9:63
# text = Eh tek a smart somebody fuh head Buh Rabbit.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **head** |  | somebody |  |  |  |  |  | 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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