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title: Buh Alligatur, him mek answer: “No, Budder, nuttne nebber bodder me. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Alligatur, him mek answer: “No, Budder, nuttne nebber bodder me. 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 147

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Buh Alligatur, him mek answer: “No, Budder, nuttne nebber bodder me.

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**To what, where:** Buh mek answer

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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:pg76586:1:147
# text = Buh Alligatur, him mek answer: “No, Budder, nuttne nebber bodder me.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
2	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
5	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	Budder	budder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bodder	bodder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## 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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