Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 68

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 · What happens: drap up, dribe · To what, where: um, ober

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.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 missis	compound
2	missis	missis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drap	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drap	aux
4	drap	drap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drap	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 right	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 right	det
8	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 um	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	12 bank	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 bank	nummod
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bank	amod
12	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drap	obl
13	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 san	advmod
14	san	san	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 riz	amod
15	riz	riz	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drap	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	4 drap	compound:prt
17	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 road	amod
18	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 road	amod
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 road	compound
20	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drap	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dribe	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 dribe	advmod
23	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 dribe	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 dribe	aux
25	dribe	dribe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 drap	conj
26	ober	ober	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dribe	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drap	punct

Pragmatics

#	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

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.

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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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 68

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 68