Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 103

At lenk eh mek up eh mine say de man bin dead fuh true; an wid dat eh leff um fuh good an gone back der wood.

Who acts: mine · What happens: mek up, say · To what, where: lenk eh · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mine), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 eh	case
2	lenk	lenk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eh	compound
3	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mek	obl
4	mek	mek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 mek	compound:prt
6	eh	eh	ADV	_	8 say	advmod
7	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mek	advcl
9	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bin	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bin	compound
11	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dead	obl:unmarked
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	ccomp
13	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	14 true	discourse
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dead	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 um	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 um	det
17	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 um	amod
18	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eh	compound
19	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 um	compound
20	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 um	compound
21	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mek	parataxis
22	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	23 good	discourse
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 um	amod
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 wood	det
25	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wood	amod
26	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 der	compound
27	der	der	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wood	compound
28	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 good	nsubj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mek up	present				lenk eh		a wid eh leff um parataxis	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	mine						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 6, sentence 103

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 103