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title: Buh Fox happy, an eh prommus fuh come. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fox happy, an eh prommus fuh come. Who acts: you, eh prommus. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, 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 6, sentence 30

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Buh Fox happy, an eh prommus fuh come.

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**Who acts:** you, eh prommus · **What happens:** fox, come

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, eh prommus), 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:pg76586:6:30
# text = Buh Fox happy, an eh prommus fuh come.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Fox	fox	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	prommus	prommus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fox** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | a eh prommus |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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