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title: Him bin berry fond er eh Mossa, an eh ready any time fuh schway ter… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Him bin berry fond er eh Mossa, an eh ready any time fuh schway ter de tale wuh him tell bout how much deer dem kill, an way dem shoot um. Who acts: er 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 tr
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 47

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Him bin berry fond er eh Mossa, an eh ready any time fuh schway ter de tale wuh him tell bout how much deer dem kill, an way dem shoot um.

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**Who acts:** er Mossa · **What happens:** tell, shoot · **To what, where:** bout, Him bin berry · **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 (er Mossa), 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:pg76586:11:47
# text = Him bin berry fond er eh Mossa, an eh ready any time fuh schway ter de tale wuh him tell bout how much deer dem kill, an way dem shoot um.
1	Him	him	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
4	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
6	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	schway	schway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat:foreign	_	_
18	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
32	shoot	shoot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | er Mossa | bout |  |  |  | Mossa *nsubj*; much dem kill *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bout=Recipient kill=Topic |
| 2 | **shoot** | present |  | Him bin berry |  |  |  | way dem *obl*; um *obj* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |

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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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