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title: De ole man dat scade eh drop eh hatchich, eh leff eh dog der wood, a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De ole man dat scade eh drop eh hatchich, eh leff eh dog der wood, and eh lean fur home. Who acts: ole scade eh, leff dog. 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 clause
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 188

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De ole man dat scade eh drop eh hatchich, eh leff eh dog der wood, and eh lean fur home.

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**Who acts:** ole scade eh, leff dog · **What happens:** drop, wood · **To what, where:** eh hatchich

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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 (ole scade eh, leff dog), 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:pg76586:2:188
# text = De ole man dat scade eh drop eh hatchich, eh leff eh dog der wood, and eh lean fur home.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	advmod	_	_
2	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	scade	scade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	eh	eh	X	FW	_	9	compound	_	_
9	hatchich	hatchich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
12	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	eh	eh	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
22	home	home	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | present | ole scade eh | eh hatchich |  |  |  | eh lean fur *obl* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchich=Theme |
| 2 | **wood** |  | leff dog |  |  |  |  |  | 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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