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title: To the apprehension of the common field-hand there was no gainsaying… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: To the apprehension of the common field-hand there was no gainsaying the fact that the spirits of the departed walked the earth and revisited the scenes of their former occupancy. Who acts: spirits, spirit. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 102

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To the apprehension of the common field-hand there was no gainsaying the fact that the spirits of the departed walked the earth and revisited the scenes of their former occupancy.

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**Who acts:** spirits, spirit · **What happens:** be, gainsay, depart, walk, revisit, apprehend · **To what, where:** no, fact, earth, scenes, common field hand

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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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirits, spirit), 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:pg76586:13:102
# text = To the apprehension of the common field-hand there was no gainsaying the fact that the spirits of the departed walked the earth and revisited the scenes of their former occupancy.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	apprehension	apprehension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	obj	_	_
13	gainsaying	gainsay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	fixed	_	_
22	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	revisited	revisit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	occupancy	occupancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past |  | no |  | there |  | to the apprehension of the common field hand | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot no=Theme to apprehension=Attribute |
| 2 | **gainsay** | gerund |  | the fact |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **depart** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **walk** | past | the spirits | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Trajectory |
| 5 | **revisit** | past | the spirits *not said here* | the scenes of spirit's former occupancy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **apprehend** |  |  | the common field hand |  |  |  |  | nom apprehension «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **occupy** |  | spirit |  |  |  |  |  | nom occupancy «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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