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title: Oh, Mossa! dat ting wuh dem call Hell duh a bad place. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, Mossa! dat ting wuh dem call Hell duh a bad place. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 15, 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 15, sentence 3

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Oh, Mossa! dat ting wuh dem call Hell duh a bad place.

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**To what, where:** ting dem call

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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 15. 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:pg76586:15:3
# text = Oh, Mossa! dat ting wuh dem call Hell duh a bad place.
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
8	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	Hell	Hell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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