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title: De Gallinipper miss eh lick, an dribe eh bill trugh de tree tell de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Gallinipper miss eh lick, an dribe eh bill trugh de tree tell de pint come out on tarruh side. Who acts: De, trugh de tree. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 184

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De Gallinipper miss eh lick, an dribe eh bill trugh de tree tell de pint come out on tarruh side.

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**Who acts:** De, trugh de tree · **What happens:** miss, tell, come out · **To what, where:** lick, de pint, side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De, trugh de tree), 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:pg76586:2:184
# text = De Gallinipper miss eh lick, an dribe eh bill trugh de tree tell de pint come out on tarruh side.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Gallinipper	Gallinipper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	miss	miss	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	lick	lick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	dribe	dribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	trugh	trugh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pint	pint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	tarruh	tarruh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | present | De | eh lick |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lick=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | trugh de tree | de pint |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pint=Recipient |
| 3 | **come out** | present | trugh de tree *not said here* |  |  | side |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

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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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