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title: Mo na dat, eh tell um, de nex mornin wen eh come fuh ride, eh mus fe… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mo na dat, eh tell um, de nex mornin wen eh come fuh ride, eh mus fetch een eh pocket four big nail wuh day on de mantlepiece een de Debble room, an dem will help um fuh git way. Who acts: Mo, de, mus, dem. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 63

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Mo na dat, eh tell um, de nex mornin wen eh come fuh ride, eh mus fetch een eh pocket four big nail wuh day on de mantlepiece een de Debble room, an dem will help um fuh git way.

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**Who acts:** Mo, de, mus, dem · **What happens:** tell, come, fetch, help, um · **To what, where:** um, fuh ride, een eh pocket, de mantlepiece, fuh git way · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mo, de, mus, dem), 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:pg76586:8:63
# text = Mo na dat, eh tell um, de nex mornin wen eh come fuh ride, eh mus fetch een eh pocket four big nail wuh day on de mantlepiece een de Debble room, an dem will help um fuh git way.
1	Mo	Mo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	na	na	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	nsubj	_	_
10	nex	nex	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
19	mus	mu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fetch	fetch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	mantlepiece	mantlepiece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
32	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	flat	_	_
33	de	de	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	Debble	Debble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
41	um	um	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
42	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Mo | um |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | present | de | fuh ride |  |  |  | nex wen eh *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ride=Theme |
| 3 | **fetch** | present | mus | een eh pocket and big nail |  | de mantlepiece de Debble room | day |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pocket=Theme on mantlepiece=Source |
| 4 | **help** | future | a dem |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **um** | infinitive | a dem *not said here* | fuh git way |  |  |  |  | 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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