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title: “Ah! no, no!” shouted the aged wise one, grim and gray in the flicke… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ah! no, no!” shouted the aged wise one, grim and gray in the flickering light. Who acts: aged wise one. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 66

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“Ah! no, no!” shouted the aged wise one, grim and gray in the flickering light.

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**Who acts:** aged wise one · **What happens:** shout, flicker

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aged wise one), 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:pg66819:26:66
# text = “Ah! no, no!” shouted the aged wise one, grim and gray in the flickering light.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	flickering	flicker	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the aged wise one |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **flicker** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «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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