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title: Receiving no answer, he caught up a heavy pickaxe and with a single… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Receiving no answer, he caught up a heavy pickaxe and with a single blow broke open the lock. Who acts: Dalu. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 282

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Receiving no answer, he caught up a heavy pickaxe and with a single blow broke open the lock.

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**Who acts:** Dalu · **What happens:** receive, catch up, break, open · **To what, where:** answer, heavy pickaxe, lock

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dalu), 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:pg76982:10:282
# text = Receiving no answer, he caught up a heavy pickaxe and with a single blow broke open the lock.
1	Receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pickaxe	pickaxe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | gerund | Dalu *not said here* | no answer |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
| 2 | **catch up** | past | Dalu | a heavy pickaxe |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pickaxe=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | past | Dalu *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a single blow | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** | infinitive | Dalu *not said here* | the lock |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lock=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 of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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