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title: The potency of charms and philters was freely admitted, and it was n… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: The potency of charms and philters was freely admitted, and it was necessary to restrain the practice of Fetichism by positive inhibition, or by labored persuasion of its utter absurdity. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, pa
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 93

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The potency of charms and philters was freely admitted, and it was necessary to restrain the practice of Fetichism by positive inhibition, or by labored persuasion of its utter absurdity.

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**What happens:** admit, be, restrain, labor, practice, persuade · **To what, where:** potency, practice, Fetichism, utter absurdity

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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: 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:pg76586:13:93
# text = The potency of charms and philters was freely admitted, and it was necessary to restrain the practice of Fetichism by positive inhibition, or by labored persuasion of its utter absurdity.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	potency	potency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	charms	charm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	philters	philter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	expl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	restrain	restrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Fetichism	Fetichism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	positive	positive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	inhibition	inhibition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	labored	labor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	persuasion	persuasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	absurdity	absurdity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admit** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the potency of charms and philters |  |  |  | freely *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **restrain** | to-infinitive |  | the practice of Fetichism |  |  |  | by positive inhibition; by labored persuasion of potency's utter absurdity | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer practice=Eventuality |
| 4 | **labor** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **practice** |  |  | Fetichism |  |  |  |  | nom practice «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **persuade** |  |  | potency's utter absurdity |  |  |  |  | nom persuasion «communication 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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