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title: HOW BUH COOTER[1] FOOL BUH DEER. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: HOW BUH COOTER[1] FOOL BUH DEER. 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 224

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HOW BUH COOTER\[1\] FOOL BUH DEER.

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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:pg76586:1:224
# text = HOW BUH COOTER[1] FOOL BUH DEER.
1	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	BUH	buh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
3	COOTER	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
7	FOOL	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
8	BUH	buh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	DEER	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## 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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