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title: De big yaller Rooster couldnt tan up befo Buh Chanticleer. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De big yaller Rooster couldnt tan up befo Buh Chanticleer. Who acts: De Rooster couldnt. 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 clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 17

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De big yaller Rooster couldnt tan up befo Buh Chanticleer.

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**Who acts:** De Rooster couldnt · **What happens:** tan up

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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 (De Rooster couldnt), 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:pg76586:6:17
# text = De big yaller Rooster couldnt tan up befo Buh Chanticleer.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	yaller	yaller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tan	tan	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tan up** | present | De Rooster couldnt |  |  |  |  | befo Buh | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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