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title: Buh Deer, him sorter skittish, an eh faid fuh trus ehself, an de big… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Deer, him sorter skittish, an eh faid fuh trus ehself, an de big woice kinder skade um, but eh mek out fuh answer: “Duh me, Buh Deer.” 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 83

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Buh Deer, him sorter skittish, an eh faid fuh trus ehself, an de big woice kinder skade um, but eh mek out fuh answer: “Duh me, Buh Deer.”

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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:pg76586:5:83
# text = Buh Deer, him sorter skittish, an eh faid fuh trus ehself, an de big woice kinder skade um, but eh mek out fuh answer: “Duh me, Buh Deer.”
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	parataxis	_	_
5	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	skittish	skittish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	faid	faid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	trus	trus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	woice	woice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
19	kinder	kind	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	conj	_	_
20	skade	skade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
24	eh	eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	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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