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title: Dey er gittin' so dey bleeve dat dey ain't no better dan de w'ite fo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey er gittin' so dey bleeve dat dey ain't no better dan de w'ite fokes. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Race Improvement, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Race Improvement, sentence 12

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Dey er gittin' so dey bleeve dat dey ain't no better dan de w'ite fokes.

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Race Improvement. 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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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:54:12
# text = Dey er gittin' so dey bleeve dat dey ain't no better dan de w'ite fokes.
1	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	er	er	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bleeve	bleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	no	no	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	dan	dan	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	conj	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	_
16	w'ite	w'ite	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	_
17	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (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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