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title: So one of the servants, bringing up a hammer, struck the shell a vio… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So one of the servants, bringing up a hammer, struck the shell a violent blow and broke it to pieces. Who acts: servants, one. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 101

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So one of the servants, bringing up a hammer, struck the shell a violent blow and broke it to pieces.

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**Who acts:** servants, one · **What happens:** bring up, strike, break · **To what, where:** hammer, shell

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:22:101
# text = So one of the servants, bringing up a hammer, struck the shell a violent blow and broke it to pieces.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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