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title: Loudly, most horribly did she shriek, not more from pain than from i… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Loudly, most horribly did she shriek, not more from pain than from intensest anger and despair. Who acts: Dame. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 55

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Loudly, most horribly did she shriek, not more from pain than from intensest anger and despair.

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**Who acts:** Dame · **What happens:** shriek · **To what, where:** pain

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame), 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:pg66819:38:55
# text = Loudly, most horribly did she shriek, not more from pain than from intensest anger and despair.
1	Loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	horribly	horribly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shriek	shriek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	intensest	intense	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shriek** | past · do-support | Dame |  |  | pain |  | than intensest anger and despair; horribly, loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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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