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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 77

So, creeping up to it, he raised his arm and brought down the copper vessel with great force upon the white object, shattering the vessel and leaving his hand free.

Who acts: fellow · What happens: creep up, raise, bring down, shatter, leave · To what, where: stone, arm, copper vessel, vessel, hand

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow), 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

advmodpunctadvclcompound:prtcaseoblpunctnsubjnmod:possobjccconjcompound:prtdetcompoundobjcaseamodoblcasedetamodoblpunctadvcldetobjccconjnmod:possobjxcomppunctrootSoADV,PUNCTcreepingVERBupADPtoADPitPRON,PUNCThePRONraisedVERBhisPRONarmNOUNandCCONJbroughtVERBdownADPtheDETcopperNOUNvesselNOUNwithADPgreatADJforceNOUNuponADPtheDETwhiteADJobjectNOUN,PUNCTshatteringVERBtheDETvesselNOUNandCCONJleavingVERBhisPRONhandNOUNfreeADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_9 raisedadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Sopunct
3creepingcreepVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 raisedadvcl
4upupADP_3 creepingcompound:prt
5totoADP_6 itcase
6ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 creepingobl
7,,PUNCT_3 creepingpunct
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 raisednsubj
9raisedraiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 armnmod:poss
11armarmNOUNNumber=Sing9 raisedobj
12andandCCONJ_13 broughtcc
13broughtbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 raisedconj
14downdownADP_13 broughtcompound:prt
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 vesseldet
16coppercopperNOUNNumber=Sing17 vesselcompound
17vesselvesselNOUNNumber=Sing13 broughtobj
18withwithADP_20 forcecase
19greatgreatADJDegree=Pos20 forceamod
20forceforceNOUNNumber=Sing13 broughtobl
21uponuponADP_24 objectcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 objectdet
23whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos24 objectamod
24objectobjectNOUNNumber=Sing13 broughtobl
25,,PUNCT_26 shatteringpunct
26shatteringshatterVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part13 broughtadvcl
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 vesseldet
28vesselvesselNOUNNumber=Sing26 shatteringobj
29andandCCONJ_30 leavingcc
30leavingleaveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part26 shatteringconj
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 handnmod:poss
32handhandNOUNNumber=Sing30 leavingobj
33freefreeADJDegree=Pos30 leavingxcomp
34..PUNCT_9 raisedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1creep upgerundfellow not said herestonevn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination
2raisepastfellowfellow's armvn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
3bring downpastfellow not said herethe copper vesselwith great force; upon the white objectvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme
4shattergerundfellow not said herethe vesselvn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient
5leavegerundfellow not said herefellow's handfree propertyvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

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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