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title: All dem wuh bin er cote de gal fix plan fuh git dem ting, but dem fa… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: All dem wuh bin er cote de gal fix plan fuh git dem ting, but dem fail. 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 23

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All dem wuh bin er cote de gal fix plan fuh git dem ting, but dem fail.

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**To what, where:** dem

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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:pg76586:11:23
# text = All dem wuh bin er cote de gal fix plan fuh git dem ting, but dem fail.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	cote	cote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	gal	gal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fix	fix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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