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title: Late into the night the air of the camp ground was alive with the la… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Late into the night the air of the camp ground was alive with the laughing voices of women and the singing in unison of young men. Who acts: air. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 58

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Late into the night the air of the camp ground was alive with the laughing voices of women and the singing in unison of young men.

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**Who acts:** air · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:13:58
# text = Late into the night the air of the camp ground was alive with the laughing voices of women and the singing in unison of young men.
1	Late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	laughing	laughing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	unison	unison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the air of the camp ground |  |  |  | night | with the laughing voices of women and the singing in unison of young men; alive, late *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (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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