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title: De shot drap offer um dout hot um, an eh come right on. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De shot drap offer um dout hot um, an eh come right on. Who acts: De, eh. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 88

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De shot drap offer um dout hot um, an eh come right on.

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**Who acts:** De, eh · **What happens:** shoot, drap offer, come · **To what, where:** um

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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 (De, eh), 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:pg76586:8:88
# text = De shot drap offer um dout hot um, an eh come right on.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	drap	drap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
4	offer	offer	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	dout	dout	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	right	right	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | past | De |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drap offer** | infinitive | De *not said here* | um |  |  |  | dout hot um | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | a eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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