Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 190

Man! sir! eh mek up eh mine to bus trugh some how.

Who acts: Man sir · What happens: mek up · To what, where: mine

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man sir), 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	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sir	compound
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Man	punct
3	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mek	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 sir	punct
5	eh	eh	INTJ	_	6 mek	discourse
6	mek	mek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 mek	compound:prt
8	eh	eh	ADV	_	9 mine	advmod
9	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mek	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	12 trugh	mark
11	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trugh	compound
12	trugh	trugh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mek	advcl
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 how	nsubj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 trugh	parataxis
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mek up	infinitive	Man sir	mine					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 1, sentence 190

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 190