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title: Buh Fox trow isself in de groun, an roll ober, an moan berry pitiful. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fox trow isself in de groun, an roll ober, an moan berry pitiful. Who acts: Buh Fox. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, 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 10, sentence 22

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Buh Fox trow isself in de groun, an roll ober, an moan berry pitiful.

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**Who acts:** Buh Fox · **What happens:** trow · **To what, where:** isself, de groun

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh Fox), 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:pg76586:10:22
# text = Buh Fox trow isself in de groun, an roll ober, an moan berry pitiful.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	trow	trow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	moan	moan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
16	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trow** | infinitive | Buh Fox | isself |  | de groun and a roll ober and a moan berry |  |  | 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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