Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 101
So one of the servants, bringing up a hammer, struck the shell a violent blow and broke it to pieces.
Who acts: servants, one · What happens: bring up, strike, break · To what, where: hammer, shell
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 servants | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 servants | det |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bringing | punct |
| 7 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 servants | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 bringing | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hammer | det |
| 10 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bringing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 struck | punct |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shell | det |
| 14 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 blow | det |
| 16 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 blow | amod |
| 17 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 broke | cc |
| 19 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 struck | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 broke | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 pieces | case |
| 22 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 broke | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | gerund | the servants not said here | a hammer | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hammer=Patient | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | one of the servants | the shell | a violent blow obj | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient blow=Result | |||
| 3 | break | past | one of the servants not said here | hammer | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to piece=Result |
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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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