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title: Raising his sword he rapped three times with the hilt on the wall, e… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Raising his sword he rapped three times with the hilt on the wall, exclaiming each time as he did so, “Open, blank wall.” Who acts: drop. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 108

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Raising his sword he rapped three times with the hilt on the wall, exclaiming each time as he did so, “Open, blank wall.”

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**Who acts:** drop · **What happens:** raise, rap, exclaim, do · **To what, where:** sword, Open blank wall

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:17:108
# text = Raising his sword he rapped three times with the hilt on the wall, exclaiming each time as he did so, “Open, blank wall.”
1	Raising	raise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	csubj	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rapped	rap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hilt	hilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	blank	blank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | gerund |  | drop's sword |  |  | time | with the hilt on the wall | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sword=Patient with hilt=Instrument |
| 2 | **rap** | past | drop | drop's sword *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | past | drop |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «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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