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title: Wen eh couldnt yeddy nuttne from Buh Rabbit, Buh Wolf gedder fat pin… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh couldnt yeddy nuttne from Buh Rabbit, Buh Wolf gedder fat pine tick, an eh poke um een de holler an eh pit fire ter um. 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 cl
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 78

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Wen eh couldnt yeddy nuttne from Buh Rabbit, Buh Wolf gedder fat pine tick, an eh poke um een de holler an eh pit fire ter um.

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**To what, where:** eh yeddy nuttne

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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: 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:pg76586:9:78
# text = Wen eh couldnt yeddy nuttne from Buh Rabbit, Buh Wolf gedder fat pine tick, an eh poke um een de holler an eh pit fire ter um.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	_
3	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	gedder	gedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tick	tick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	poke	poke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
21	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
23	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
26	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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