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title: Eh draw in eh neck, an eh try fur hide eh head, an eh look dat pitty… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh draw in eh neck, an eh try fur hide eh head, an eh look dat pittyful you rale sorry for um. Who acts: Eh draw. 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 every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 215

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Eh draw in eh neck, an eh try fur hide eh head, an eh look dat pittyful you rale sorry for um.

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**Who acts:** Eh draw · **What happens:** hide, look · **To what, where:** head

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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 (Eh draw), 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:pg76586:1:215
# text = Eh draw in eh neck, an eh try fur hide eh head, an eh look dat pittyful you rale sorry for um.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	draw	draw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
18	dat	dat	X	GW	_	17	vocative	_	_
19	pittyful	pittyful	X	JJ	_	18	goeswith	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	goeswith	_	_
21	rale	rale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
22	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	goeswith	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | Eh draw in eh neck and a eh try fur | eh head and a eh |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | dat  you for um *vocative* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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