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title: Buh Monkey slip down de tree an mek track fuh him house. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Monkey slip down de tree an mek track fuh him house. 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 99

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Buh Monkey slip down de tree an mek track fuh him house.

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**To what, where:** tree track house

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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:pg76586:4:99
# text = Buh Monkey slip down de tree an mek track fuh him house.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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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