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title: One day one er de hen wuh blanks ter Buh Chanticleer fambly mek um s… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day one er de hen wuh blanks ter Buh Chanticleer fambly mek um sensible jist way de yaller Rooster blan roose. Who acts: one hen wuh, yaller Rooster blan. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tre
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 25

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One day one er de hen wuh blanks ter Buh Chanticleer fambly mek um sensible jist way de yaller Rooster blan roose.

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**Who acts:** one hen wuh, yaller Rooster blan · **What happens:** blank, roose · **To what, where:** mek um, sensible jist way

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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 (one hen wuh, yaller Rooster blan), 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:pg76586:6:25
# text = One day one er de hen wuh blanks ter Buh Chanticleer fambly mek um sensible jist way de yaller Rooster blan roose.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
4	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	wuh	wuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	blanks	blank	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	jist	jist	X	FW	_	17	compound	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
19	yaller	yaller	X	FW	_	21	compound	_	_
20	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	blan	blan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	roose	roose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blank** | present | one hen wuh | mek um |  |  | day | ter Buh; sensible jist way *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 2 | **roose** | infinitive | yaller Rooster blan | sensible jist way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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