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title: Unutterable horror seized me at the prospect, and this exclamation b… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: 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 ex
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 24

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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.

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**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

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:17:24
# text = 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.
1	Unutterable	unutterable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	vehemence	vehemence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	advcl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	35	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	receptacle	receptacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	impenitence	impenitence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
41	there	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Typo=Yes	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux	_	_
45	alleviated	alleviate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	torment	torment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj:pass	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
56	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
57	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
58	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	aux	_	_
59	excluded	exclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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