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title: An dat de way Buh Cooter fool Buh Deer an win de bet. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: An dat de way Buh Cooter fool Buh Deer an win de bet. 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 252

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An dat de way Buh Cooter fool Buh Deer an win de bet.

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**To what, where:** de way

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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:pg76586:1:252
# text = An dat de way Buh Cooter fool Buh Deer an win de bet.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	win	win	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## 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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