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title: Arter dat, de yaller Rooster faid fuh come nigh Buh Chanticleer. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arter dat, de yaller Rooster faid fuh come nigh Buh Chanticleer. Who acts: Arter dat. 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 19

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Arter dat, de yaller Rooster faid fuh come nigh Buh Chanticleer.

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**Who acts:** Arter dat · **What happens:** fai, come · **To what, where:** Buh Chanticleer

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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 (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:pg76586:6:19
# text = Arter dat, de yaller Rooster faid fuh come nigh Buh Chanticleer.
1	Arter	Arter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	_
5	yaller	yaller	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	faid	fai	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Chanticleer	chanticleer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fai** | past | Arter dat |  |  |  |  | Rooster *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | Arter dat *not said here* | Buh Chanticleer |  |  |  | nigh *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chanticleer=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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