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title: At de nex mile pose day was Buh Cooter a crawlin along. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: At de nex mile pose day was Buh Cooter a crawlin along. 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 245

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At de nex mile pose day was Buh Cooter a crawlin along.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Buh Cooter

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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:pg76586:1:245
# text = At de nex mile pose day was Buh Cooter a crawlin along.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	nsubj	_	_
3	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	pose	pose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	crawlin	crawlin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	along	along	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Buh Cooter and a crawlin |  |  | day | a crawlin *conj* | tree rules |

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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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