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title: Mo na dat, me gwine pit white spot on you forrud, so ebrybody kin se… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mo na dat, me gwine pit white spot on you forrud, so ebrybody kin see you hab de bes sense een you head.” Who acts: me, Mo na dat, hab bes, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 128

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Mo na dat, me gwine pit white spot on you forrud, so ebrybody kin see you hab de bes sense een you head.”

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**Who acts:** me, Mo na dat, hab bes, you · **What happens:** spot, see, sense, head · **To what, where:** you

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, Mo na dat, hab bes, you), 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:pg76586:9:128
# text = Mo na dat, me gwine pit white spot on you forrud, so ebrybody kin see you hab de bes sense een you head.”
1	Mo	Mo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	na	na	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	forrud	forrud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	ebrybody	ebrybody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat:foreign	_	_
21	bes	be	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sense	sense	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
23	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spot** |  | me |  |  |  |  | on you; forrud *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | Mo na dat and ebrybody kin | you |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sense** | present | hab bes |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **head** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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