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title: Buh Sparruh rare isself back, an eh mek answer: “You go tell Buh Cro… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Sparruh rare isself back, an eh mek answer: “You go tell Buh Crow an de tarruh gentlemans me tetter so big me cant tote um.” Who acts: You, Buh. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 212

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Buh Sparruh rare isself back, an eh mek answer: “You go tell Buh Crow an de tarruh gentlemans me tetter so big me cant tote um.”

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**Who acts:** You, Buh · **What happens:** go, tell, tetter · **To what, where:** Buh Crow · **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 (You, Buh), 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:pg76586:2:212
# text = Buh Sparruh rare isself back, an eh mek answer: “You go tell Buh Crow an de tarruh gentlemans me tetter so big me cant tote um.”
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
2	Sparruh	Sparruh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	mek	mek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	compound	_	_
20	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	gentlemans	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	tetter	tetter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	ccomp	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
27	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	tote	tote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* |  | Buh Crow  a de tarruh gentlemans  me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent crow=Recipient |
| 3 | **tetter** *in a quote* | present | Buh and a eh mek answer |  |  |  |  |  | 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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