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title: “Wan! what? what?” clamored eager voices of men and women. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Wan! what? what?” clamored eager voices of men and women. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Warlike Seven, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 32

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“Wan! what? what?” clamored eager voices of men and women.

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**What happens:** clamor

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Warlike Seven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg338:15:32
# text = “Wan! what? what?” clamored eager voices of men and women.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wan	wan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	clamored	clamor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
10	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clamor** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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