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title: Eh bin drap eh hoe, an bin er seddown on de cotton bed duh res ehself. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh bin drap eh hoe, an bin er seddown on de cotton bed duh res ehself. Who acts: Eh bin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, 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 11, sentence 8

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Eh bin drap eh hoe, an bin er seddown on de cotton bed duh res ehself.

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**Who acts:** Eh bin · **What happens:** drap · **To what, where:** hoe, de cotton bed

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh bin), 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:pg76586:11:8
# text = Eh bin drap eh hoe, an bin er seddown on de cotton bed duh res ehself.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hoe	hoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	seddown	seddown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
13	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	duh	duh	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	res	re	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drap** | present | Eh bin | eh hoe |  | de cotton bed duh res |  | seddown *obl*; ehself *obj* | 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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