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title: Eh saterfy say Buh Rabbit done bun up, an eh gone home, an eh mek br… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh saterfy say Buh Rabbit done bun up, an eh gone home, an eh mek brag ter him fambly say him bin stroy Buh Rabbit. Who acts: Eh, 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 pragmat
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 80

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Eh saterfy say Buh Rabbit done bun up, an eh gone home, an eh mek brag ter him fambly say him bin stroy Buh Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** Eh, Buh Rabbit · **What happens:** say, do up, go, stroy · **To what, where:** bun, eh, Buh Rabbit · **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 (Eh, 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:pg76586:9:80
# text = Eh saterfy say Buh Rabbit done bun up, an eh gone home, an eh mek brag ter him fambly say him bin stroy Buh Rabbit.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	saterfy	saterfy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
7	bun	bun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
12	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	mek	mek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	brag	brag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	stroy	stroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
26	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do up** | participle | Buh Rabbit | bun |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bun=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** | participle |  | a eh and a eh mek brag ter bun *not said here* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a eh and a eh mek brag ter bun | bun |  |  |  | fambly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **stroy** | infinitive |  | Buh Rabbit |  |  |  | bin *compound* | 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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