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title: Buh Deer jump clean ober um an mek fur de nex mile pose. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Deer jump clean ober um an mek fur de nex mile pose. Who acts: 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 248

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Buh Deer jump clean ober um an mek fur de nex mile pose.

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**Who acts:** Deer · **What happens:** jump · **To what, where:** clean ober um

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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: who acts (Deer), 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:pg76586:1:248
# text = Buh Deer jump clean ober um an mek fur de nex mile pose.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	Deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	ober	ober	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
11	nex	nex	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	pose	pose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | present | Deer | clean ober um |  |  |  | a mek fur *obl*; nex mile pose *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme um=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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