The novel "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway does not have a traditional "syntax and garner" at the beginning of the story. It starts directly with the narrative of the old man, Santiago, who is described as having gone 84 days without catching a fish. The story begins with the following sentence:
"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."
There is no specific syntactical or garlanded preamble at the beginning of the story. Instead, the novel starts by introducing the main character and setting the scene for the reader.