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title: In an instant each piece of the shell turned into an armed man, and… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: In an instant each piece of the shell turned into an armed man, and Prince Baki himself appeared amongst them in his proper form. Who acts: piece, Baki, shell. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., with its dependency tre
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 102

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In an instant each piece of the shell turned into an armed man, and Prince Baki himself appeared amongst them in his proper form.

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**Who acts:** piece, Baki, shell · **What happens:** turn, appear, form · **To what, where:** instant, proper form

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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 (piece, Baki, shell), 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:pg75000:22:102
# text = In an instant each piece of the shell turned into an armed man, and Prince Baki himself appeared amongst them in his proper form.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Baki	Baki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	nmod	_	_
19	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | participle | each piece of the shell |  |  | a instant |  | into a armed man | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in instant=Trajectory |
| 2 | **appear** | past | Baki  Prince  shell |  |  | shell's proper form |  | amongst pieces *= piece* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst they=Location |
| 3 | **form** |  | shell |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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