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title: Mossa, me cant scribe wuh me see an yeddy een dat Hebben. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mossa, me cant scribe wuh me see an yeddy een dat Hebben. Who acts: Mossa. 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 of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 134

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Mossa, me cant scribe wuh me see an yeddy een dat Hebben.

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**Who acts:** Mossa · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** yeddy

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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 (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:pg76586:14:134
# text = Mossa, me cant scribe wuh me see an yeddy een dat Hebben.
1	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
4	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	scribe	scribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
12	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Hebben	Hebben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | Mossa  me  cant scribe | a yeddy |  |  |  | dat Hebben; me *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yeddy=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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