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title: Buh Fox mek answer: “Me luk um berry well. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fox mek answer: “Me luk um berry well. 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 34

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Buh Fox mek answer: “Me luk um berry well.

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**To what, where:** Buh mek answer

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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: 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:pg76586:6:34
# text = Buh Fox mek answer: “Me luk um berry well.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
8	luk	luk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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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