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title: Buh Fox, him berry bex, on eh gedder de cheese an eh fole up eh scal… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fox, him berry bex, on eh gedder de cheese an eh fole up eh scale, an eh holler out: “Begone, you rogue. Who acts: Buh, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 46

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Buh Fox, him berry bex, on eh gedder de cheese an eh fole up eh scale, an eh holler out: “Begone, you rogue.

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**Who acts:** Buh, you · **What happens:** berry, rogue · **To what, where:** bex, Begone

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh, 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:pg76586:5:46
# text = Buh Fox, him berry bex, on eh gedder de cheese an eh fole up eh scale, an eh holler out: “Begone, you rogue.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	berry	berry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	gedder	gedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fole	fole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Begone	Begone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	rogue	rogue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **berry** | present | Buh | bex |  |  |  | eh gedder and de cheese *conj* | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bex=Location |
| 2 | **rogue** *in a quote* | present | you | Begone |  |  |  |  | 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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