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title: Eh look pootier den dat big rockin chair wuh ole Mossa bin gib Missy… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh look pootier den dat big rockin chair wuh ole Mossa bin gib Missy wen eh marry you farruh. Who acts: you, pootier den dat, Missy wen. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 125

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Eh look pootier den dat big rockin chair wuh ole Mossa bin gib Missy wen eh marry you farruh.

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**Who acts:** you, pootier den dat, Missy wen · **What happens:** look, gib, marry · **To what, where:** you

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, pootier den dat, Missy wen), 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:pg76586:14:125
# text = Eh look pootier den dat big rockin chair wuh ole Mossa bin gib Missy wen eh marry you farruh.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pootier	pooty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
4	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	rockin	rockin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
10	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gib	gib	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
14	Missy	Missy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **gib** | infinitive | pootier den dat |  |  |  |  | big rockin chair *nsubj*; ole Mossa bin *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **marry** | infinitive | Missy wen | you |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

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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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