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title: Instantly every voice was hushed and every arm was stayed. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Instantly every voice was hushed and every arm was stayed. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 64

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Instantly every voice was hushed and every arm was stayed.

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**What happens:** hush, stay · **To what, where:** voice, arm

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. 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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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:35:64
# text = Instantly every voice was hushed and every arm was stayed.
1	Instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	hushed	hush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hush** | past · passive |  | every voice |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **stay** | past · passive |  | every arm |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |

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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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