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title: Eh fix heaper plan fuh ketch um, but eh fail. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh fix heaper plan fuh ketch um, but eh fail. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, 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 10, sentence 85

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Eh fix heaper plan fuh ketch um, but eh fail.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** fix · **To what, where:** heaper plan

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg76586:10:85
# text = Eh fix heaper plan fuh ketch um, but eh fail.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	fix	fix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	heaper	heaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | imperative | you *not said here* | heaper plan |  |  |  | eh fail *obl* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent plan=Patient |

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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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