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title: Dem wait leely wile fuh Buh Fox, but him sen wud say him wife hab fe… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem wait leely wile fuh Buh Fox, but him sen wud say him wife hab feber an him couldnt leff um. Who acts: Dem. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, 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 10, sentence 133

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Dem wait leely wile fuh Buh Fox, but him sen wud say him wife hab feber an him couldnt leff um.

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**Who acts:** Dem · **What happens:** wait, wile, say, um · **To what, where:** Buh Fox, sen · **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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dem), 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:pg76586:10:133
# text = Dem wait leely wile fuh Buh Fox, but him sen wud say him wife hab feber an him couldnt leff um.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	leely	leely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wile	wile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	sen	sen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	wud	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	feber	feber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | infinitive | Dem |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wile** | infinitive | Dem *not said here* | Buh Fox |  |  |  | leely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | dem | sen |  |  |  | hab feber *obj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme feber=Manner |
| 4 | **um** |  | dem |  |  |  |  |  | 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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