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title: Eh sting so bad, an eh berry lub fuh drap topper ebryting wuh come c… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh sting so bad, an eh berry lub fuh drap topper ebryting wuh come close eh nes, an dout gie um any warnin. Who acts: sting, topper. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 121

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Eh sting so bad, an eh berry lub fuh drap topper ebryting wuh come close eh nes, an dout gie um any warnin.

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**Who acts:** sting, topper · **What happens:** drap, ebryt, come, gie · **To what, where:** topper, 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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sting, topper), 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:pg76586:9:121
# text = Eh sting so bad, an eh berry lub fuh drap topper ebryting wuh come close eh nes, an dout gie um any warnin.
1	Eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	lub	lub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
11	drap	drap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	ebryting	ebryt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	nes	ne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dout	dout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	gie	gie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	warnin	warnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drap** | infinitive | eh sting and a eh berry lub | topper and a dout |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ebryt** | gerund | topper and a dout *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | topper and a dout *not said here* |  |  |  |  | eh nes; close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **gie** | infinitive | eh sting and a eh berry lub *not said here* | um |  |  |  | any warnin *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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