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title: Buh Deer couldnt tell how dat happn. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Deer couldnt tell how dat happn. 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 243

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Buh Deer couldnt tell how dat happn.

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**What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** Deer couldnt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg76586:1:243
# text = Buh Deer couldnt tell how dat happn.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	happn	happn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present |  | Deer couldnt |  |  |  | dat happn *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent happn=Recipient |

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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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