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title: De New Nigger, him mek answer: “No, Mossa, you miss. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De New Nigger, him mek answer: “No, Mossa, you miss. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, 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 11, sentence 15

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De New Nigger, him mek answer: “No, Mossa, you miss.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** miss · **To what, where:** Mossa, Nigger 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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg76586:11:15
# text = De New Nigger, him mek answer: “No, Mossa, you miss.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Nigger	Nigger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	_
6	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	miss	miss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** *in a quote* | present | you | Mossa |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus |

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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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