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title: One day Buh Deer bin a laugh at Buh Cooter becase eh walk so slow. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day Buh Deer bin a laugh at Buh Cooter becase eh walk so slow. 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 229

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One day Buh Deer bin a laugh at Buh Cooter becase eh walk so slow.

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**What happens:** bin, walk · **To what, where:** laugh, 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 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:pg76586:1:229
# text = One day Buh Deer bin a laugh at Buh Cooter becase eh walk so slow.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
10	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	becase	becase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	eh	eh	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present |  | a laugh |  |  | day |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | present |  |  |  | Buh |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at buh=Trajectory |

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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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