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title: LV. DE FIDDLER, BUH TIGER, AN BUH BEAR 147 — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: LV. DE FIDDLER, BUH TIGER, AN BUH BEAR 147 Who acts: you. 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 129

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LV. DE FIDDLER, BUH TIGER, AN BUH BEAR 147

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** lv. · **To what, where:** DE FIDDLER

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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: who acts (you), 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:pg76586:1:129
# text = LV. DE FIDDLER, BUH TIGER, AN BUH BEAR 147
1	LV.	lv.	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	DE	DE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	FIDDLER	fiddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	BUH	buh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	TIGER	TIGER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	AN	and	CCONJ	CC	Typo=Yes	10	cc	_	_
9	BUH	buh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	BEAR	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
11	147	147	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lv.** | imperative | you *not said here* | DE FIDDLER |  |  |  | BEAR *parataxis* | 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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