Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 21
“Very good,” replied the Lion in a guttural tone of voice, “come again at this time to-morrow, and bring with you a large bucket, and I will furnish you at once with what wealth you require.”
Who acts: Lion, you · What happens: reply, come, bring, furnish, require, intonate · To what, where: guttural tone, large bucket, you, wealth, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lion | det |
| 8 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tone | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tone | det |
| 11 | guttural | guttural | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tone | compound |
| 12 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 voice | case |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tone | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 morrow | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 to | punct |
| 24 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 time | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bring | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bring | cc |
| 27 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 you | case |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 bring | obl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 bucket | det |
| 31 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 bucket | amod |
| 32 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bring | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 furnish | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 furnish | cc |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 furnish | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 furnish | aux |
| 37 | furnish | furnish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 good | conj |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 furnish | obj |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 once | case |
| 40 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 37 furnish | obl |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 what | case |
| 42 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 furnish | obj |
| 43 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 what | nsubj |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 require | nsubj |
| 45 | require | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 wealth | acl:relcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Lion | a guttural tone of voice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | again; time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | infinitive | a large bucket | with you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme | ||||
| 4 | furnish in a quote | future | the Lion = lion | you | what wealth obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | require in a quote | present | you | wealth not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wealth=Precondition | ||||
| 7 | intonate | voice | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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.
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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