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title: Nearer and louder grew the voices--one was the clear flute tones of… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Nearer and louder grew the voices--one was the clear flute tones of a young brave and the other the tremulous squeaks of an old grandfather. Who acts: Nearer, old grandfather. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 96

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Nearer and louder grew the voices--one was the clear flute tones of a young brave and the other the tremulous squeaks of an old grandfather.

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**Who acts:** Nearer, old grandfather · **What happens:** grow, be, squeak · **To what, where:** voices, one clear flute tones

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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 (Nearer, old grandfather), 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:pg338:14:96
# text = Nearer and louder grew the voices--one was the clear flute tones of a young brave and the other the tremulous squeaks of an old grandfather.
1	Nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	tremulous	tremulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	squeaks	squeak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Nearer | the voices and the one clear flute tones |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location voice=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Nearer *not said here* | the one clear flute tones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **squeak** |  | a old grandfather |  |  |  |  |  | nom squeak «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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