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title: Suddenly he heard the noise of Ahti’s singing—a noise most strange,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly he heard the noise of Ahti’s singing—a noise most strange, most unlike any other that had ever broken the silence of the sea. Who acts: chin, Ahti. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 89

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Suddenly he heard the noise of Ahti’s singing—a noise most strange, most unlike any other that had ever broken the silence of the sea.

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**Who acts:** chin, Ahti · **What happens:** hear, sing, break, noise, silence · **To what, where:** noise, most, sea

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chin, Ahti), 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:pg66819:36:89
# text = Suddenly he heard the noise of Ahti’s singing—a noise most strange, most unlike any other that had ever broken the silence of the sea.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	nsubj	_	_
17	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nmod	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | chin | the noise of Ahti |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | chin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | past · perfect · passive |  | most unlike any other |  |  | ever | that *nsubj:pass*; the silence of the sea *obj* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient silence=Result |
| 4 | **noise** |  | Ahti |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **silence** |  |  | the sea |  |  |  |  | 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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