The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 67
Oh, the terror, brief but indescribable!
To what, where: terror
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 terror | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 terror | det |
| 4 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brief | punct |
| 6 | brief | brief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 terror | amod |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 indescribable | cc |
| 8 | indescribable | indescribable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brief | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 terror | 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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