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title: Den Buh Chanticleer tell um fuh come de fus moon-shiny night, an him… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Chanticleer tell um fuh come de fus moon-shiny night, an him will show um way eh kin git a good supper. Who acts: Den. 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 cl
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 29

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Den Buh Chanticleer tell um fuh come de fus moon-shiny night, an him will show um way eh kin git a good supper.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** tell, come, show · **To what, where:** um fuh, um way · **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 (Den), 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:pg76586:6:29
# text = Den Buh Chanticleer tell um fuh come de fus moon-shiny night, an him will show um way eh kin git a good supper.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	de	de	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
19	um	um	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	kin	kin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Den | um fuh |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fuh=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | present | Den *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | future | den | um way |  |  |  | kin git *obj*; a good supper *obj* | 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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