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title: Soon he came to a teepee from whence loud wailing voices broke. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon he came to a teepee from whence loud wailing voices broke. Who acts: MANSTIN, loud wailing voices. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 19

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Soon he came to a teepee from whence loud wailing voices broke.

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**Who acts:** MANSTIN, loud wailing voices · **What happens:** come, break · **To what, where:** teepee

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MANSTIN, loud wailing voices), 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:pg338:14:19
# text = Soon he came to a teepee from whence loud wailing voices broke.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	wailing	wailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | MANSTIN |  |  | a teepee |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to teepee=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **break** | past | loud wailing voices |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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