Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 21

De gal couldnt mek up eh mine which one fuh tek, an so eh ax eh farruh fuh help um pick.

Who acts: De gal couldnt, mine, um · What happens: mek up, tek, help, pick · To what, where: um

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De gal couldnt, mine, um), 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 couldnt	compound
2	gal	gal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 couldnt	compound
3	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mek	nsubj
4	mek	mek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 mek	compound:prt
6	eh	eh	ADV	_	11 tek	advmod
7	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tek	nsubj
8	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tek	nsubj
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	11 tek	discourse
11	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mek	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eh	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 eh	det
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 eh	advmod
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eh	amod
16	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eh	compound
17	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tek	appos
18	farruh	farruh	INTJ	_	17 eh	discourse
19	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	20 help	discourse
20	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 mek	parataxis
21	um	um	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 help	obj
22	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 help	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mek up	present	De gal couldnt			tree rules
2	tek		mine		which one nsubj; a eh ax eh appos	tree rules
3	help	infinitive		um		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent um=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	pick	infinitive	um not said here			vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 11, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 21