Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 24

Unutterable horror seized me at the prospect, and this exclamation burst from me with all the vehemence of desire: “O! that I had been doomed for ever to the common receptacle of impenitence and guilt! there society would have alleviated the torment of despair, and the rage of fire could not have excluded the comfort of light.

Who acts: Unutterable horror, exclamation, fire · What happens: seize, burst, doom, alleviate, not exclude, torment · To what, where: me, prospect, vice, society, rage, despair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Carazan.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Unutterable horror, exclamation, fire), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unutterable	unutterable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 horror	amod
2	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seized	nsubj
3	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 seized	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 prospect	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prospect	det
7	prospect	prospect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 burst	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 burst	cc
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 exclamation	det
11	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 burst	nsubj
12	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 burst	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 vehemence	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 vehemence	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 vehemence	det
18	vehemence	vehemence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 burst	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 desire	case
20	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 vehemence	nmod
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 doomed	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 doomed	punct
23	O	o	INTJ	_	29 doomed	discourse
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 O	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 doomed	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 doomed	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 doomed	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 doomed	aux:pass
29	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 alleviated	advcl
30	for	for	ADP	_	35 receptacle	case
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 receptacle	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 receptacle	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 receptacle	det
34	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 receptacle	amod
35	receptacle	receptacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 doomed	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 impenitence	case
37	impenitence	impenitence	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 receptacle	nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 guilt	cc
39	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 receptacle	conj
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 doomed	punct
41	there	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes	42 society	nmod:poss
42	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 alleviated	nsubj:pass
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 alleviated	aux
44	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 alleviated	aux
45	alleviated	alleviate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 seized	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 torment	det
47	torment	torment	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 alleviated	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 despair	case
49	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 torment	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 excluded	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 excluded	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 rage	det
53	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 excluded	nsubj:pass
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 fire	case
55	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 rage	nmod
56	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 excluded	aux
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 excluded	advmod
58	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 excluded	aux
59	excluded	exclude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 seized	parataxis
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 comfort	det
61	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 excluded	obj
62	of	of	ADP	_	63 light	case
63	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 comfort	nmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	Unutterable horror	me	the prospect		tree rules
2	burst	past	this exclamation			from me; with all vehemence of desire	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	doom in a quote	past · perfect · passive		vice and folly = vice		for the common receptacle of impenitence and guilt	tree rules
4	alleviate in a quote	would · perfect · passive		there's society		the torment of despair obj	tree rules
5	not exclude in a quote	could · perfect · passive		the rage of fire		the comfort of light obj	tree rules
6	torment in a quote			despair			nom torment «state transitive»: of=patient
7	rage in a quote		fire				nom rage «feeling intransitive»: of=agent
8	comfort in a quote			light			nom comfort «state transitive»: of=patient

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.

Text: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 24

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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 24