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title: De Cooter, him hab him corner too, an eh full um long him bittle. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Cooter, him hab him corner too, an eh full um long him bittle. Who acts: de. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, 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 5, sentence 66

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De Cooter, him hab him corner too, an eh full um long him bittle.

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**Who acts:** de · **What happens:** hab · **To what, where:** De Cooter

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (de), 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:pg76586:5:66
# text = De Cooter, him hab him corner too, an eh full um long him bittle.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hab	hab	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	um	um	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	RB	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	compound	_	_
16	bittle	bittle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hab** | present | de | De Cooter |  |  |  | a eh *obl*; dem *obj*; corner *obj* | 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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