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title: L. BUH ROCCOON AN BUH POSSUM 136 — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: L. BUH ROCCOON AN BUH POSSUM 136 A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, 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 1, sentence 120

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L. BUH ROCCOON AN BUH POSSUM 136

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**To what, where:** L.

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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 1. 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:pg76586:1:120
# text = L. BUH ROCCOON AN BUH POSSUM 136
1	L.	L.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	BUH	buh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
3	ROCCOON	ROCCOON	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	AN	an	X	GW	_	1	parataxis	_	_
5	BUH	buh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
6	POSSUM	possum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	136	136	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
```

## 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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