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title: Mossa, how dem sinner did kick an holler an try fuh pull way! — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mossa, how dem sinner did kick an holler an try fuh pull way! Who acts: dem. 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 148

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Mossa, how dem sinner did kick an holler an try fuh pull way!

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**Who acts:** dem · **What happens:** kick, pull · **To what, where:** holler, way

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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 (dem), 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:pg76586:14:148
# text = Mossa, how dem sinner did kick an holler an try fuh pull way!
1	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	sinner	sinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | past · do-support | dem | a holler |  |  |  | Mossa *vocative*; a try *obj* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent holler=Patient try=Result |
| 2 | **pull** | infinitive | dem *not said here* | way |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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