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title: With a shout, Chi-dubula-taka seized a great clod of earth and launc… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With a shout, Chi-dubula-taka seized a great clod of earth and launched it at Makoma. Who acts: Chi dubula taka. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 72

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With a shout, Chi-dubula-taka seized a great clod of earth and launched it at Makoma.

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**Who acts:** Chi dubula taka · **What happens:** seize, launch · **To what, where:** great clod, earth, Makoma

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:1:72
# text = With a shout, Chi-dubula-taka seized a great clod of earth and launched it at Makoma.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Chi	Chi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	dubula	dubula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	taka	taka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	clod	clod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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