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title: I. HOW COME BUH ALLIGATUR NEBBER SLEEP FUR FROM DE RIBBER BANK 1 — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 24

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I. HOW COME BUH ALLIGATUR NEBBER SLEEP FUR FROM DE RIBBER BANK 1

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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:pg76586:1:24
# text = I. HOW COME BUH ALLIGATUR NEBBER SLEEP FUR FROM DE RIBBER BANK 1
1	I.	i.	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	COME	come	ADJ	GW	Degree=Pos|Typo=Yes	0	root	_	_
4	BUH	buh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
5	ALLIGATUR	ALLIGATUR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	NEBBER	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	SLEEP	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	FUR	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
9	FROM	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	DE	DE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	RIBBER	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	BANK	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
13	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	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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