---
title: Hark!--the shouts and the braying of drums, and the Babel of tongues… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Hark!--the shouts and the braying of drums, and the Babel of tongues and confusion! Who acts: Hark. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/11/22/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [The Feast of the Virgins., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/11/) / 22

# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 22

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hark!--the shouts and the braying of drums, and the Babel of tongues and confusion!

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Hark · **What happens:** shout, bray

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:11:22
# text = Hark!--the shouts and the braying of drums, and the Babel of tongues and confusion!
1	Hark	Hark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	braying	bray	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Babel	Babel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Hark |  |  |  |  | the Babel of tongues and confusion *conj* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bray** | gerund | Hark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of drums | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/11/21/)
- next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/11/23/)
- ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/11/)