Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 23

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

To what, where: dem

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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 dem	det
2	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	4 bin	discourse
4	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dem	appos
5	er	e	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 cote	amod
6	cote	cote	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dem	conj
7	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cote	amod
8	gal	gal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fix	compound
9	fix	fix	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plan	compound
10	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 de	conj
11	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ting	amod
12	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dem	compound
13	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ting	compound
14	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plan	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fail	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 fail	cc
17	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fail	compound
18	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dem	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dem	punct

Pragmatics

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

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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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 23