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title: De Sperit, wuh bin de Mossa dress up een de white gown wuh kibber um… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Sperit, wuh bin de Mossa dress up een de white gown wuh kibber um all ober, mek answer way down een him troat: “Duh me, Det, wuh you bin a pray fuh.” Who acts: De Sperit, mek, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 121

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De Sperit, wuh bin de Mossa dress up een de white gown wuh kibber um all ober, mek answer way down een him troat: “Duh me, Det, wuh you bin a pray fuh.”

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**Who acts:** De Sperit, mek, you · **What happens:** dress up, answer, een, troat, bin · **To what, where:** een white gown, way, Sperit, pray fuh · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De Sperit, mek, you), 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:pg76586:6:121
# text = De Sperit, wuh bin de Mossa dress up een de white gown wuh kibber um all ober, mek answer way down een him troat: “Duh me, Det, wuh you bin a pray fuh.”
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Sperit	Sperit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	de	de	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	dress	dress	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	een	een	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
15	kibber	kibber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	um	um	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	een	een	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	troat	troat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Det	Det	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	pray	pray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress up** | present | De Sperit | een white gown and kibber um all ober |  |  |  | me *obl* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Patient |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | mek | way |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |
| 3 | **een** | past | mek *not said here* | Sperit |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **troat** | infinitive | mek *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | you | a pray fuh |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuh=Theme |

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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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