🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 108

The incident which we relate occurred some forty years ago at one of those beautiful plantations in the swamp-region of Georgia, where the magnolia grandiflora and the live-oak mingled their noble shadows,--where the cultivation of rice and sea-island cotton engaged the attention of the agriculturalist,--where generous hospitality and a patriarchal civilization abode,--and where, at a remove from city, all operations were conducted within the limits of the liberal domain, and through the intervention of means and servants appurtenant to the long-established and abundant home.

Who acts: magnolia grandiflora, cultivation, remove, intervention, grandiflora, agriculturalist · What happens: occur, mingle, engage, conduct, mean, servant · To what, where: incident, remove, noble shadows, attention, operations, appurtenant

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Pragmatics

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