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title: “No, Mossa; wuh me gwine fade um fuh? — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: “No, Mossa; wuh me gwine fade um fuh? Who acts: gwine. 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 55

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“No, Mossa; wuh me gwine fade um fuh?

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**Who acts:** gwine · **What happens:** fade · **To what, where:** um

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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 (gwine), 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:pg76586:14:55
# text = “No, Mossa; wuh me gwine fade um fuh?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
8	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fade	fade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fade** *in a quote* | present | gwine | um |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent um=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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