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title: Buh Deer couldnt mek out how dat. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Deer couldnt mek out how dat. 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 clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 78

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Buh Deer couldnt mek out how dat.

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**To what, where:** Deer couldnt

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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: 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:pg76586:5:78
# text = Buh Deer couldnt mek out how dat.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	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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