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title: At lenk eh mek up eh mine say de man bin dead fuh true; an wid dat e… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, 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 6, sentence 103

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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.

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

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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 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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:6:103
# text = 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.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	lenk	lenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	mek	mek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
13	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
18	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
22	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	der	der	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	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 |  |  |  | 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 |

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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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