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title: Many went a step further, and invested these ghosts and “sperits” wi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many went a step further, and invested these ghosts and “sperits” with the ability to intervene in mundane affairs, and to entail harm and misfortune upon those with whom they had not lived amicably while in the flesh. Who acts: Many, ghosts. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told i
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 67

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Many went a step further, and invested these ghosts and “sperits” with the ability to intervene in mundane affairs, and to entail harm and misfortune upon those with whom they had not lived amicably while in the flesh.

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**Who acts:** Many, ghosts · **What happens:** go, invest, intervene, not live · **To what, where:** step, ghosts, mundane affairs

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, 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:pg76586:14:67
# text = Many went a step further, and invested these ghosts and “sperits” with the ability to intervene in mundane affairs, and to entail harm and misfortune upon those with whom they had not lived amicably while in the flesh.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	further	further	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	invested	invest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	sperits	sperit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ability	ability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	intervene	intervene	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	mundane	mundane	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	entail	entail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	nmod	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nmod	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	amicably	amicably	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Many | a step |  |  |  | further *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **invest** | past | Many *not said here* | this ghosts and sperits |  |  |  | with the ability; entail harm upon those with entail harm upon those with entail harm and misfortune and misfortune *obl* | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent ghost=Recipient with ability=Theme |
| 3 | **intervene** | to-infinitive | Many *not said here* |  |  | mundane affairs |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **live** | past · perfect | ghosts *= ghost* |  |  |  |  | the flesh *advcl*; amicably *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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