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title: Soon arter dat de Buckra man come pon topper de New Nigger een de fi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon arter dat de Buckra man come pon topper de New Nigger een de fiel. Who acts: arter dat. 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 clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 6

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Soon arter dat de Buckra man come pon topper de New Nigger een de fiel.

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**Who acts:** arter dat · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** pon topper

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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 (arter dat), 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:pg76586:11:6
# text = Soon arter dat de Buckra man come pon topper de New Nigger een de fiel.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
2	arter	art	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	de	de	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Buckra	Buckra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Nigger	Nigger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
15	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | arter dat de Buckra man | pon topper |  |  |  | de New Nigger; soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location topper=Theme |

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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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