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title: Eh missis did drap um, an right off one big bank er san riz up clean… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh missis did drap um, an right off one big bank er san riz up clean cross de road, so nobody could dribe ober. Who acts: Eh missis, nobody. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 68

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Eh missis did drap um, an right off one big bank er san riz up clean cross de road, so nobody could dribe ober.

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**Who acts:** Eh missis, nobody · **What happens:** drap up, dribe · **To what, where:** um, ober

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh missis, nobody), 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:pg76586:8:68
# text = Eh missis did drap um, an right off one big bank er san riz up clean cross de road, so nobody could dribe ober.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	missis	missis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	drap	drap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	san	san	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	riz	riz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
17	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	compound	_	_
20	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	dribe	dribe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
26	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drap up** | past · do-support | Eh missis | um and a right |  |  |  | off one big bank; san riz *obj*; clean cross de road *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dribe** | could | nobody | ober |  |  |  |  | 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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