Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 25

All de noung man een de county bin er cote um an er try fuh marry um.

Who acts: de noung man · What happens: try, marry · 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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (de noung man), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 man	det
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	4 man	compound
3	noung	noung	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	compound
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 try	nsubj
5	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 man	flat
6	de	de	ADP	_	10 cote	case
7	county	county	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cote	amod
8	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 er	compound
9	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cote	compound
10	cote	cote	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod
11	um	um	ADP	_	13 er	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 er	det
13	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cote	nmod
14	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	16 marry	discourse
16	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 try	xcomp
17	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 marry	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	infinitive	all de noung man de county er cote um a er						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	marry not said to happen	infinitive	all de noung man de county er cote um a er not said here	um					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient

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 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 25