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title: Mo na dat: you an him fix plan fuh kill me wuh bin you fren, an rob… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mo na dat: you an him fix plan fuh kill me wuh bin you fren, an rob me outer wuh money me hab leff. Who acts: you, outer money. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 173

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Mo na dat: you an him fix plan fuh kill me wuh bin you fren, an rob me outer wuh money me hab leff.

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**Who acts:** you, outer money · **What happens:** fix, kill, bin, rob, leff · **To what, where:** plan, me, you, Mo na dat

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, outer money), 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:pg76586:4:173
# text = Mo na dat: you an him fix plan fuh kill me wuh bin you fren, an rob me outer wuh money me hab leff.
1	Mo	Mo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	na	na	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	conj	_	_
8	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
9	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
11	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	bin	bin	VERB	VB	Number=Sing	8	advcl:relcl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	fren	fren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rob	rob	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
23	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | infinitive | you | plan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **bin** | infinitive | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  | fren *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rob** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source |
| 5 | **leff** |  | outer money |  |  |  |  | me *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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