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title: The faint sound of murmuring people was in the air. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The faint sound of murmuring people was in the air. Who acts: faint sound. 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 65

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The faint sound of murmuring people was in the air.

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**Who acts:** faint sound · **What happens:** murmur, be · **To what, where:** people, air

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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 (faint sound), 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:pg338:13:65
# text = The faint sound of murmuring people was in the air.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	murmuring	murmur	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **murmur** *speech: other* | gerund | the faint sound *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | the faint sound |  |  | the air |  |  | 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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