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title: Dis big wud sabe Buh Goat. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dis big wud sabe Buh Goat. Who acts: Dis. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 15

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Dis big wud sabe Buh Goat.

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**Who acts:** Dis · **What happens:** sabe · **To what, where:** Buh Goat

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dis), 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:pg76586:4:15
# text = Dis big wud sabe Buh Goat.
1	Dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	wud	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sabe	sabe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sabe** | would | Dis | Buh Goat |  |  |  |  | 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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