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title: Among the negroes of the coast region of Georgia and the Carolinas a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the negroes of the coast region of Georgia and the Carolinas a belief in the existence of ghosts, “sperits,” and superhuman influences was very general. Who acts: belief, ghosts. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 89

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Among the negroes of the coast region of Georgia and the Carolinas a belief in the existence of ghosts, “sperits,” and superhuman influences was very general.

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**Who acts:** belief, ghosts · **What happens:** be, exist

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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 (belief, ghosts), 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:pg76586:13:89
# text = Among the negroes of the coast region of Georgia and the Carolinas a belief in the existence of ghosts, “sperits,” and superhuman influences was very general.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Carolinas	Carolina	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	sperits	sperit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	superhuman	superhuman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	influences	influence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a belief in the existence of ghosts and superhuman influences |  |  |  |  | among the negroes; of the coast region of Georgia and the Carolinas; general *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **exist** |  | ghosts |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: of=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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