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title: Mo na dat, eh prommus um big money ef eh git back de Ring widin de f… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mo na dat, eh prommus um big money ef eh git back de Ring widin de fibe day; but eh treaten um fuh kill um ef eh fail fuh fine um eenside dat time. Who acts: prommus um. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, with its dep
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 149

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Mo na dat, eh prommus um big money ef eh git back de Ring widin de fibe day; but eh treaten um fuh kill um ef eh fail fuh fine um eenside dat time.

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**Who acts:** prommus um · **What happens:** git back, treaten · **To what, where:** um, 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prommus um), 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:pg76586:6:149
# text = Mo na dat, eh prommus um big money ef eh git back de Ring widin de fibe day; but eh treaten um fuh kill um ef eh fail fuh fine um eenside dat time.
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	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
6	prommus	prommus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	de	de	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	widin	widin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	advmod	_	_
18	fibe	fibe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	treaten	treaten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
24	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	eh	eh	X	AFX	_	30	compound	_	_
30	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	_
31	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
32	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
33	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	eenside	eenside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **git back** |  | prommus um |  |  |  |  | de Ring widin  fibe day | tree rules |
| 2 | **treaten** | infinitive |  | um |  |  |  | ef eh fail and fine dat time *parataxis* | 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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