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title: She listened, and presently a voice—a strange and manly voice—was he… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: She listened, and presently a voice—a strange and manly voice—was heard above the storm wind’s roar; but still the watch dogs slept and gave no alarm. Who acts: Louhi, watch dogs, storm wind. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest, with its dependency
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 31

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She listened, and presently a voice—a strange and manly voice—was heard above the storm wind’s roar; but still the watch dogs slept and gave no alarm.

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**Who acts:** Louhi, watch dogs, storm wind · **What happens:** listen, hear, sleep, give, roar · **To what, where:** voice, roar, alarm

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Louhi, watch dogs, storm wind), 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:pg66819:8:31
# text = She listened, and presently a voice—a strange and manly voice—was heard above the storm wind’s roar; but still the watch dogs slept and gave no alarm.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	manly	manly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
17	above	above	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | Louhi | a voice and a strange voice |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past · passive | Louhi *not said here* |  |  | the storm wind's roar |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
| 3 | **sleep** | past | the watch dogs |  |  |  | still |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past | the watch dogs *not said here* | no alarm |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alarm=Theme |
| 5 | **roar** |  | the storm wind |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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