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title: Buh Bear fling Buh Tiger; an befo eh leh um git up, eh box um side e… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Bear fling Buh Tiger; an befo eh leh um git up, eh box um side er de head. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 33

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Buh Bear fling Buh Tiger; an befo eh leh um git up, eh box um side er de head.

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**To what, where:** Buh Bear fling

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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 4. 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:pg76586:4:33
# text = Buh Bear fling Buh Tiger; an befo eh leh um git up, eh box um side er de head.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fling	fling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	leh	leh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
16	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
19	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	dep	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	compound	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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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