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title: DE NEW NIGGER AN EH MOSSA. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: DE NEW NIGGER AN EH MOSSA. 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 2

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DE NEW NIGGER AN EH MOSSA.

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**To what, where:** DE NEW NIGGER

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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: 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:pg76586:11:2
# text = DE NEW NIGGER AN EH MOSSA.
1	DE	DE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	NEW	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	NIGGER	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	AN	an	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	3	appos	_	_
5	EH	EH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	goeswith	_	_
6	MOSSA	MOSSA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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