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title: Me nebber gwine hab nuttne fuh do long um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me nebber gwine hab nuttne fuh do long um. Who acts: gwine hab nuttne. 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 94

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Me nebber gwine hab nuttne fuh do long um.

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**Who acts:** gwine hab nuttne · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** long um, gwine hab nuttne

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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 (gwine hab nuttne), 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:pg76586:8:94
# text = Me nebber gwine hab nuttne fuh do long um.
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | gwine hab nuttne  Me  nebber *not said here* | long um |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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