🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 99

To insure the efficacy of the desired spell, it was necessary that the charm should be secretly deposited under the pillow of the party to be affected, placed upon the post of a gate through which he would pass, or buried beneath the doorsteps of his cabin.

Who acts: enmity · What happens: insure, desire, be, deposit, affect, place · To what, where: efficacy, charm, pillow, post, gate, doorsteps

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 (enmity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

Pragmatics

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