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title: Er New Nigger notus say eh Mossa heap er time duh seddown wid eh foo… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Er New Nigger notus say eh Mossa heap er time duh seddown wid eh foot cross, yent duh say nuttne an yent duh do nuttne, wen him haffer wuk all de time. Who acts: Nigger notus, Mossa, seddown, yent duh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jone
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 3

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Er New Nigger notus say eh Mossa heap er time duh seddown wid eh foot cross, yent duh say nuttne an yent duh do nuttne, wen him haffer wuk all de time.

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**Who acts:** Nigger notus, Mossa, seddown, yent duh · **What happens:** say, time, cross, do · **To what, where:** yent, nuttne · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Nigger notus, Mossa, seddown, yent duh), 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:pg76586:11:3
# text = Er New Nigger notus say eh Mossa heap er time duh seddown wid eh foot cross, yent duh say nuttne an yent duh do nuttne, wen him haffer wuk all de time.
1	Er	er	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Nigger	Nigger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
7	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
11	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
12	seddown	seddown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	duh	duh	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
21	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	duh	duh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
26	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	haffer	haffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
33	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	compound	_	_
34	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Nigger notus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **time** |  | Mossa |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cross** |  | seddown |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | yent |  |  |  | nuttne *obj*; duh *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nuttne=Topic |
| 5 | **do** | present | a yent duh | nuttne and wen  seddown and haffer wuk |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nuttne=Eventuality |

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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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