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title: Eh Mossa win de bet, an eh share de silber money wid de ole man. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh Mossa win de bet, an eh share de silber money wid de ole man. Who acts: Eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8, 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 8, sentence 118

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Eh Mossa win de bet, an eh share de silber money wid de ole man.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** win · **To what, where:** de bet

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh), 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:pg76586:8:118
# text = Eh Mossa win de bet, an eh share de silber money wid de ole man.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
11	silber	silber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	conj	_	_
15	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present | Eh | de bet and a eh share and silber money |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bet=Eventuality |

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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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