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title: So Buh Fox cuhfuse dem two gang er soldier, an dem nebber did fine u… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Buh Fox cuhfuse dem two gang er soldier, an dem nebber did fine um out. Who acts: Buh, two gang. 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 75

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So Buh Fox cuhfuse dem two gang er soldier, an dem nebber did fine um out.

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**Who acts:** Buh, two gang · **What happens:** cuhfuse, um out · **To what, where:** dem

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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, two gang), 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:pg76586:7:75
# text = So Buh Fox cuhfuse dem two gang er soldier, an dem nebber did fine um out.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	cuhfuse	cuhfuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	um	um	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cuhfuse** | present | Buh | dem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **um out** | past · do-support | two gang  er soldier |  |  |  |  |  | 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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