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title: BUH MONKEY AN DE BULL-DOG. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: BUH MONKEY AN DE BULL-DOG. Who acts: you. 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 55

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BUH MONKEY AN DE BULL-DOG.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** monkey · **To what, where:** AN BULL DOG

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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: who acts (you), 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:pg76586:4:55
# text = BUH MONKEY AN DE BULL-DOG.
1	BUH	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	MONKEY	monkey	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	AN	AN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
4	DE	DE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	BULL	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	DOG	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **monkey** | imperative | you *not said here* | AN BULL DOG |  |  |  |  | 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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