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title: So Buh Fox fool de soldier, an dem gone back an jine de compny an ma… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Buh Fox fool de soldier, an dem gone back an jine de compny an march on. Who acts: dem, Buh Fox fool. 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 58

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So Buh Fox fool de soldier, an dem gone back an jine de compny an march on.

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**Who acts:** dem, Buh Fox fool · **What happens:** go back, compny on · **To what, where:** jine, march

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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 (dem, Buh Fox fool), 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:pg76586:7:58
# text = So Buh Fox fool de soldier, an dem gone back an jine de compny an march on.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	jine	jine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
15	compny	compny	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | participle | a dem *not said here* | a jine |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **compny on** | infinitive | Buh Fox fool  soldier and a dem | a march |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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