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title: Buh Rabbit leetle fuh true an eh yent strong, but eh berry scheemy a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit leetle fuh true an eh yent strong, but eh berry scheemy an eh hab er bad heart. Who acts: eh berry scheemy. 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 99

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Buh Rabbit leetle fuh true an eh yent strong, but eh berry scheemy an eh hab er bad heart.

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**Who acts:** eh berry scheemy · **What happens:** heart · **To what, where:** 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 (eh berry scheemy), 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:pg76586:9:99
# text = Buh Rabbit leetle fuh true an eh yent strong, but eh berry scheemy an eh hab er bad heart.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	leetle	leetle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
9	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	scheemy	scheemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	er	er	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heart** |  | eh berry scheemy |  |  |  |  | a eh hab *nsubj* | 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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