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title: Ole Mossa, Cappne Maxwell, ole Mr. Ashmore, Buh Jack, Sister Masha,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ole Mossa, Cappne Maxwell, ole Mr. Ashmore, Buh Jack, Sister Masha, me own Dinah, an mo bin day, an dem all hab harp, an bin der sing, an walk bout, an der pledjur ehself. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, with its 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 138

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Ole Mossa, Cappne Maxwell, ole Mr. Ashmore, Buh Jack, Sister Masha, me own Dinah, an mo bin day, an dem all hab harp, an bin der sing, an walk bout, an der pledjur ehself.

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**What happens:** walk · **To what, where:** bout, Ole

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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: 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:pg76586:14:138
# text = Ole Mossa, Cappne Maxwell, ole Mr. Ashmore, Buh Jack, Sister Masha, me own Dinah, an mo bin day, an dem all hab harp, an bin der sing, an walk bout, an der pledjur ehself.
1	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Cappne	Cappne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	Maxwell	Maxwell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Ashmore	Ashmore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Sister	Sister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	Masha	Masha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
29	hab	hab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
34	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
39	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	43	amod	_	_
43	pledjur	pledjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
44	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	43	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present |  | bout |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bout=Trajectory |

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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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