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title: De gal couldnt mek up eh mine which one fuh tek, an so eh ax eh farr… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 21

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

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

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:11:21
# text = De gal couldnt mek up eh mine which one fuh tek, an so eh ax eh farruh fuh help um pick.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	gal	gal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mek	mek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
7	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	9	det	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
18	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
19	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
20	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	um	um	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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