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title: So, creeping up to it, he raised his arm and brought down the copper… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Muss
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 77

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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.

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:7:77
# text = 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.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	shattering	shatter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep up** | gerund | fellow *not said here* |  |  | stone |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination |
| 2 | **raise** | past | fellow | fellow's arm |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 3 | **bring down** | past | fellow *not said here* | the copper vessel |  |  |  | with great force; upon the white object | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme |
| 4 | **shatter** | gerund | fellow *not said here* | the vessel |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient |
| 5 | **leave** | gerund | fellow *not said here* | fellow's hand |  |  |  | free *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |

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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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