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title: Wen Buh Sparruh fine dem all bent pon mek um show eh tetter, eh say:… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Sparruh fine dem all bent pon mek um show eh tetter, eh say: “Well, wait pon top me. Who acts: Wen fine dem. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2, 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 2, sentence 203

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Wen Buh Sparruh fine dem all bent pon mek um show eh tetter, eh say: “Well, wait pon top me.

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**Who acts:** Wen fine dem · **What happens:** show, tetter, say, wait, top · **To what, where:** pon, Wen fine dem · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen fine 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:pg76586:2:203
# text = Wen Buh Sparruh fine dem all bent pon mek um show eh tetter, eh say: “Well, wait pon top me.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Sparruh	Sparruh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	tetter	tetter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
22	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	top	top	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Wen fine dem |  |  |  |  | all bent pon *nsubj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tetter** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Wen fine dem *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | pon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **top** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Wen fine dem *= dem* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme |

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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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