Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 206
Dem wait tell dem tired, an Buh Sparruh no come back.
Who acts: Dem, Buh Sparruh · What happens: wait, tell, come back · To what, where: dem · Speech: someone speaks here
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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dem | Dem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wait | nsubj |
| 2 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wait | xcomp |
| 4 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tell | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Sparruh | det |
| 8 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sparruh | compound |
| 9 | Sparruh | Sparruh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 come | nsubj |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wait | parataxis |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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.
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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