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title: Me faid um wus den rattlesnake; an dat ting wuh dem call Hell, me ne… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me faid um wus den rattlesnake; an dat ting wuh dem call Hell, me nebber wan shum ner go nigh um.” Who acts: nebber. 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 95

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Me faid um wus den rattlesnake; an dat ting wuh dem call Hell, me nebber wan shum ner go nigh um.”

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**Who acts:** nebber · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** um, faid wus den rattlesnake

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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 (nebber), 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:pg76586:8:95
# text = Me faid um wus den rattlesnake; an dat ting wuh dem call Hell, me nebber wan shum ner go nigh um.”
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	faid	faid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wus	wus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	rattlesnake	rattlesnake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
12	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	Hell	Hell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	conj	_	_
17	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	wan	wan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	shum	shum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
22	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | nebber and wan shum ner | um |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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