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title: Buh Monkey leff eh tail een de dog mouf, an gone up de tree. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Monkey leff eh tail een de dog mouf, an gone up de tree. 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 88

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Buh Monkey leff eh tail een de dog mouf, an gone up de tree.

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**What happens:** go up · **To what, where:** eh tail een

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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:pg76586:4:88
# text = Buh Monkey leff eh tail een de dog mouf, an gone up de tree.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Monkey	Monkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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