Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 54
Dat sorter saterfy de gentlemans, an sabe de Buckra man wud.
What happens: sabe · To what, where: de, saterfy de gentlemans
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.
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 | Dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sorter | det |
| 2 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gentlemans | nsubj |
| 3 | saterfy | saterfy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gentlemans | amod |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 gentlemans | compound |
| 5 | gentlemans | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sabe | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sabe | det |
| 8 | sabe | sabe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gentlemans | conj |
| 9 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sabe | obj |
| 10 | Buckra | Buckra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wud | compound |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wud | compound |
| 12 | wud | wud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sabe | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gentlemans | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sabe | infinitive | de | Buckra man wud obj | tree rules |
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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