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title: Eh drag isself trugh de mash, an eh gone in de broom-grass fiel, and… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh drag isself trugh de mash, an eh gone in de broom-grass fiel, and tretch isself in de grass, an fall fas tersleep. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 158

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Eh drag isself trugh de mash, an eh gone in de broom-grass fiel, and tretch isself in de grass, an fall fas tersleep.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** drag, go, tretch · **To what, where:** isself, eh, de grass fiel, de grass

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg76586:1:158
# text = Eh drag isself trugh de mash, an eh gone in de broom-grass fiel, and tretch isself in de grass, an fall fas tersleep.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	drag	drag	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	trugh	trugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	mash	mash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	tretch	tretch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	fas	fa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	compound	_	_
28	tersleep	tersleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | imperative | you *not said here* | isself |  |  |  | trugh and de mash *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | participle |  | a eh *not said here* |  | de grass fiel |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fiel=Location |
| 3 | **tretch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | isself |  | de grass |  |  | 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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