---
title: Eh did come de fus moon-shiny night, an Buh Chanticleer gone long um… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh did come de fus moon-shiny night, an Buh Chanticleer gone long um an pint out de big yaller Rooster duh sleep een one low cedar tree. Who acts: Eh, Buh Chanticleer, yaller. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, with i
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/6/31/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/6/) / 31

# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 31

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Eh did come de fus moon-shiny night, an Buh Chanticleer gone long um an pint out de big yaller Rooster duh sleep een one low cedar tree.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Eh, Buh Chanticleer, yaller · **What happens:** come, um, sleep

<!-- .vabout -->
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, Buh Chanticleer, yaller), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:6:31
# text = Eh did come de fus moon-shiny night, an Buh Chanticleer gone long um an pint out de big yaller Rooster duh sleep een one low cedar tree.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Chanticleer	chanticleer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pint	pint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	de	de	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	yaller	yaller	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	nsubj	_	_
23	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
25	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
26	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
28	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	cedar	cedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · do-support | Eh |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **um** |  | a Buh Chanticleer |  |  |  |  | a pint and big Rooster sleep *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sleep** |  | yaller |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/6/30/)
- next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/6/32/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/6/)