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title: Buh Rabbit, him bin quaintun wid all de holler tree een de wood, an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him bin quaintun wid all de holler tree een de wood, an wen Buh Wolf push um close, eh jump een one er dem. Who acts: Wid. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 74

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Buh Rabbit, him bin quaintun wid all de holler tree een de wood, an wen Buh Wolf push um close, eh jump een one er dem.

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**Who acts:** Wid · **What happens:** bin, push, jump · **To what, where:** Rabbit, een

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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 (Wid), 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:pg76586:9:74
# text = Buh Rabbit, him bin quaintun wid all de holler tree een de wood, an wen Buh Wolf push um close, eh jump een one er dem.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	quaintun	quaintun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	de	de	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	um	um	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
25	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | Wid | Rabbit |  |  |  | all de holler tree *obl*; quaintun *obj* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent quaintun=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | present |  |  |  |  |  | de wood and a wen; close *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **jump** | infinitive |  | een |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme een=Trajectory |

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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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