The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 72
With a shout, Chi-dubula-taka seized a great clod of earth and launched it at Makoma.
Who acts: Chi dubula taka · What happens: seize, launch · To what, where: great clod, earth, Makoma
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chi dubula taka), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3027:46): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 shout | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shout | det |
| 3 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 shout | punct |
| 5 | Chi | Chi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 taka | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Chi | punct |
| 7 | dubula | dubula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 taka | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 dubula | punct |
| 9 | taka | taka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | nsubj |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 clod | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 clod | amod |
| 13 | clod | clod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 earth | case |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 clod | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 launched | cc |
| 17 | launched | launch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seized | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 launched | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 Makoma | case |
| 20 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 launched | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Chi dubula taka | a great clod of earth | with a shout | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clod=Theme | |||
| 2 | launch | past | Chi dubula taka not said here | earth | Makoma | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at makoma=Destination |
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.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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