Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 27

Eh dress up better ner all dem tarruh gentlemans.

Who acts: you · What happens: dress up · To what, where: better ner

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 (you), 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	INTJ	_	2 dress	discourse
2	dress	dress	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 dress	compound:prt
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 ner	amod
5	ner	ner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dress	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 gentlemans	det
7	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gentlemans	compound
8	tarruh	tarruh	INTJ	_	7 dem	discourse
9	gentlemans	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dress	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dress	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress up	imperative	you not said here	better ner				all dem gentlemans obj	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 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 27