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title: There is, however, a field, largely untrodden, in which may be found… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: There is, however, a field, largely untrodden, in which may be found ample opportunity for the exhibition of kindred inquiry and humor. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 18

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There is, however, a field, largely untrodden, in which may be found ample opportunity for the exhibition of kindred inquiry and humor.

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**What happens:** be, untrodden, find, exhibit · **To what, where:** field, ample opportunity, kindred inquiry

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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 1. 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:pg76586:1:18
# text = There is, however, a field, largely untrodden, in which may be found ample opportunity for the exhibition of kindred inquiry and humor.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	untrodden	untrodden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
17	ample	ample	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	exhibition	exhibition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	kindred	kindred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	inquiry	inquiry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	humor	humor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present |  |  |  | there |  | a field *conj*; however *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **untrodden** | participle |  | a field *not said here* |  |  |  | largely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | may · passive |  | ample opportunity |  |  |  | for the exhibition of kindred inquiry and humor; which *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: opportunity=Theme for exhibition=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **exhibit** |  |  | kindred inquiry and humor |  |  |  |  | nom exhibition «act transitive»: of=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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