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title: De Buckra man gen um de prommus an len um de horse. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Buckra man gen um de prommus an len um de horse. 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 88

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De Buckra man gen um de prommus an len um de horse.

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**To what, where:** um de prommus

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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: 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:pg76586:10:88
# text = De Buckra man gen um de prommus an len um de horse.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	Buckra	Buckra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	prommus	prommus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	len	len	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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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