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title: Dat sorter saterfy de gentlemans, an sabe de Buckra man wud. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dat sorter saterfy de gentlemans, an sabe de Buckra man wud. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, 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 11, sentence 54

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Dat sorter saterfy de gentlemans, an sabe de Buckra man wud.

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**What happens:** sabe · **To what, where:** de, saterfy de gentlemans

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg76586:11:54
# text = Dat sorter saterfy de gentlemans, an sabe de Buckra man wud.
1	Dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	saterfy	saterfy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	gentlemans	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sabe	sabe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	Buckra	Buckra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	wud	wud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sabe** | infinitive |  | de |  |  |  | Buckra man wud *obj* | 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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