The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 71

Ah, me! that it should be my task to tell of this strange tragedy so brief but terrible!

Who acts: me · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: task · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (me), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	3 me	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 task	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 task	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 task	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 task	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 task	cop
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 task	nmod:poss
10	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 task	acl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 tragedy	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 tragedy	det
15	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tragedy	amod
16	tragedy	tragedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 brief	advmod
18	brief	brief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tragedy	amod
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 terrible	cc
20	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 brief	conj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 task	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should	me	my task				doom nsubj; my nmod:poss	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive						of this strange tragedy	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 71

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 71