The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 100
“O ye snakes, so vile, so wise!
To what, where: snakes
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 snakes | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 snakes | discourse |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 snakes | nsubj |
| 4 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 vile | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 vile | advmod |
| 7 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 snakes | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wise | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 wise | advmod |
| 10 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 vile | parataxis |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 snakes | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (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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