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title: Suddenly an uproar was heard, a sound feeble at first but every mome… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly an uproar was heard, a sound feeble at first but every moment growing louder. Who acts: moment. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 11

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Suddenly an uproar was heard, a sound feeble at first but every moment growing louder.

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**Who acts:** moment · **What happens:** hear, grow · **To what, where:** uproar

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment), 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:pg66819:22:11
# text = Suddenly an uproar was heard, a sound feeble at first but every moment growing louder.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	uproar	uproar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	feeble	feeble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	obl	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · passive |  | a uproar |  |  |  | a sound but every moment *obj*; suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | every moment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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