---
title: De Obersheer him yeddy wuh de Ole Man bin a pray fuh, an eh tell de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Obersheer him yeddy wuh de Ole Man bin a pray fuh, an eh tell de Mossa, an dem fix plan fuh hab fun long de Ole Man. Who acts: Obersheer yeddy, hab. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and t
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/6/115/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/6/) / 115

# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 115

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
De Obersheer him yeddy wuh de Ole Man bin a pray fuh, an eh tell de Mossa, an dem fix plan fuh hab fun long de Ole Man.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Obersheer yeddy, hab · **What happens:** bin, man · **To what, where:** pray fuh

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Obersheer yeddy, hab), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:6:115
# text = De Obersheer him yeddy wuh de Ole Man bin a pray fuh, an eh tell de Mossa, an dem fix plan fuh hab fun long de Ole Man.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Obersheer	Obersheer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
4	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
6	de	de	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	pray	pray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	de	de	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	fix	fix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
24	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
25	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	compound	_	_
29	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | infinitive | Obersheer yeddy | a pray fuh and a dem fix plan |  |  |  | de Ole Man | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuh=Theme |
| 2 | **man** |  | hab |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/6/114/)
- next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/6/116/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/6/)