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title: Him kin jis creep, an dat all; but him hab plenty er sense. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Him kin jis creep, an dat all; but him hab plenty er sense. Who acts: cant. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, 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 1, sentence 228

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Him kin jis creep, an dat all; but him hab plenty er sense.

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**Who acts:** cant · **What happens:** creep, sense · **To what, where:** dat

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cant), 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:pg76586:1:228
# text = Him kin jis creep, an dat all; but him hab plenty er sense.
1	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	kin	kin	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	jis	ji	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	creep	creep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** |  | cant | a dat |  |  |  | jis *nsubj*; all *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sense** |  | cant |  |  |  |  | hab plenty *nsubj* | 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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