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title: Dem wait tell dem tired, an Buh Sparruh no come back. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem wait tell dem tired, an Buh Sparruh no come back. Who acts: Dem, Buh Sparruh. 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 206

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Dem wait tell dem tired, an Buh Sparruh no come back.

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**Who acts:** Dem, Buh Sparruh · **What happens:** wait, tell, come back · **To what, where:** 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 (Dem, Buh Sparruh), 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:pg76586:2:206
# text = Dem wait tell dem tired, an Buh Sparruh no come back.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
4	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Sparruh	Sparruh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | present | Dem |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Dem *not said here* | dem |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dem=Recipient |
| 3 | **come back** | present | a Buh Sparruh |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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