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title: The unwonted sound of a human voice rolled thunderously across the r… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The unwonted sound of a human voice rolled thunderously across the river, stirring the sluggish stream to its very depths; it awakened the echoes in the distant colorless hills of Tuonela, and with deafening roar broke the silence of ages. Who acts: unwonted sound, sound. A sentence of «The Sampo: A
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 30

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The unwonted sound of a human voice rolled thunderously across the river, stirring the sluggish stream to its very depths; it awakened the echoes in the distant colorless hills of Tuonela, and with deafening roar broke the silence of ages.

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**Who acts:** unwonted sound, sound · **What happens:** roll, stir, awaken, break, silence · **To what, where:** river, sluggish stream, echoes, distant colorless hills, silence, ages

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unwonted sound, sound), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:14:30
# text = The unwonted sound of a human voice rolled thunderously across the river, stirring the sluggish stream to its very depths; it awakened the echoes in the distant colorless hills of Tuonela, and with deafening roar broke the silence of ages.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unwonted	unwonted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	thunderously	thunderously	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	stirring	stir	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sluggish	sluggish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	echoes	echo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	colorless	colorless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Tuonela	Tuonela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	deafening	deafening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
39	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | past | the unwonted sound of a human voice |  |  | the river |  | thunderously *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across river=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stir** | gerund | the unwonted sound of a human voice *not said here* | the sluggish stream |  |  |  | to sound's depths | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent stream=Patient to depth=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **awaken** | past | sound | the echoes |  | the distant colorless hills of Tuonela |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location echo=Theme |
| 4 | **break** | past | sound *not said here* | the silence of ages |  |  |  | with deafening roar | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent silence=Patient with roar=Instrument |
| 5 | **silence** |  |  | ages |  |  |  |  | nom silence «state 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:** «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (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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