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title: A sudden clamor of high-pitched voices broke the deadly stillness of… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: A sudden clamor of high-pitched voices broke the deadly stillness of the dawn. Who acts: sudden clamor. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 36

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A sudden clamor of high-pitched voices broke the deadly stillness of the dawn.

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**Who acts:** sudden clamor · **What happens:** pitch, break, clamor · **To what, where:** deadly stillness, pitched voices

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sudden clamor), 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:pg338:8:36
# text = A sudden clamor of high-pitched voices broke the deadly stillness of the dawn.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	clamor	clamor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	pitched	pitch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stillness	stillness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pitch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **break** | past | a sudden clamor of pitched voices | the deadly stillness of the dawn |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stillness=Patient |
| 3 | **clamor** |  |  | pitched voices |  |  |  |  | nom clamor «event transitive»: of=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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