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title: Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Budder, dat holler way you bin try fuh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Budder, dat holler way you bin try fuh bun me een, gone ter de top er de tree, an eh bin full er honey. Who acts: you, ter. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 86

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Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Budder, dat holler way you bin try fuh bun me een, gone ter de top er de tree, an eh bin full er honey.

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**Who acts:** you, ter · **What happens:** try, tree · **To what, where:** bun, holler way

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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 (you, ter), 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:pg76586:9:86
# text = Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Budder, dat holler way you bin try fuh bun me een, gone ter de top er de tree, an eh bin full er honey.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
5	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Budder	budder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	bin	bin	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	bun	bun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	appos	_	_
20	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
23	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	nsubj	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	flat:foreign	_	_
25	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	er	er	X	FW	_	28	compound	_	_
27	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	flat:foreign	_	_
28	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
33	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** *in a quote* |  | you | bun and gone top er tree |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bun=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tree** *in a quote* |  | ter |  |  |  |  | a eh bin and full er honey *appos* | 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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