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title: And all these mournful noises, issuing out of thousands of separate… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And all these mournful noises, issuing out of thousands of separate hearts, united themselves into one great sound of affliction, which had startled Theseus from slumber. Who acts: mournful noises. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency tr
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 82

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And all these mournful noises, issuing out of thousands of separate hearts, united themselves into one great sound of affliction, which had startled Theseus from slumber.

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**Who acts:** mournful noises · **What happens:** issue, unite, startle · **To what, where:** thousands, affliction, slumber

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mournful noises), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:4:82
# text = And all these mournful noises, issuing out of thousands of separate hearts, united themselves into one great sound of affliction, which had startled Theseus from slumber.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	noises	noise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	issuing	issue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	united	unite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	affliction	affliction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	startled	startle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | gerund | all mournful noises *not said here* |  |  | thousands of separate hearts |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out thousand=Location |
| 2 | **unite** | past | all mournful noises | thousands *= thousand* |  |  |  | into one great sound of affliction | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient into sound=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **startle** | past · perfect · passive |  | affliction |  | slumber |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer theseus=Result |

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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:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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