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title: Oh, the terror, brief but indescribable! — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, the terror, brief but indescribable! A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 67

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Oh, the terror, brief but indescribable!

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**To what, where:** terror

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:30:67
# text = Oh, the terror, brief but indescribable!
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	brief	brief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	indescribable	indescribable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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