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title: Eh come, an Buh Chanticleer ax um say: “You want one fat Rooster fuh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh come, an Buh Chanticleer ax um say: “You want one fat Rooster fuh eat?” Who acts: Eh, You. 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 27

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Eh come, an Buh Chanticleer ax um say: “You want one fat Rooster fuh eat?”

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**Who acts:** Eh, You · **What happens:** come, say, want, eat · **To what, where:** Buh ax um, one fat Rooster · **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 (Eh, You), 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:pg76586:6:27
# text = Eh come, an Buh Chanticleer ax um say: “You want one fat Rooster fuh eat?”
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	Chanticleer	chanticleer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | Eh *not said here* | a Buh ax um |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **want** *in a quote* | present | You | one fat Rooster |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rooster=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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