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title: Buh Fox, Buh Rabbit, an Buh Coon, dem day fas fren, an dem constant… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fox, Buh Rabbit, an Buh Coon, dem day fas fren, an dem constant keep compny. Who acts: Buh fren. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, 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 7, sentence 42

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Buh Fox, Buh Rabbit, an Buh Coon, dem day fas fren, an dem constant keep compny.

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**Who acts:** Buh fren · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** compny

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh fren), 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:pg76586:7:42
# text = Buh Fox, Buh Rabbit, an Buh Coon, dem day fas fren, an dem constant keep compny.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Coon	coon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fas	fa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
14	fren	fren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	compny	compny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | infinitive | Buh fren and a dem | compny |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compny=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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