Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 22
The boy thanked the Lion for his kindness, and carrying his load of firewood down to the village he sold it for a good price, and with the proceeds he purchased himself a large wooden bucket.
Who acts: boy, Lion · What happens: thank, carry, sell, proceed, purchase · To what, where: Lion, load, village
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 (boy, Lion), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Lion | det |
| 5 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 kindness | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carrying | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 carrying | cc |
| 11 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thanked | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 load | nmod:poss |
| 13 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carrying | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 firewood | case |
| 15 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 load | nmod |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 carrying | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 village | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 village | det |
| 19 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carrying | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sold | nsubj |
| 21 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 village | acl:relcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sold | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 price | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 price | det |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 price | amod |
| 26 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sold | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 proceeds | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 proceeds | cc |
| 29 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 31 proceeds | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 proceeds | det |
| 31 | proceeds | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 purchased | nsubj |
| 33 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 proceeds | ccomp |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 purchased | obj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 bucket | det |
| 36 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 bucket | amod |
| 37 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 bucket | amod |
| 38 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 purchased | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the boy | the Lion | for Lion's kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent lion=Theme for kindness=Attribute | |||
| 2 | carry | gerund | the boy not said here | Lion's load of firewood | the village | down property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent load=Theme to village=Destination | ||
| 3 | sell | past | Lion | load | for a good price | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme for price=Asset | |||
| 4 | proceed | present | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | purchase | past | Lion | Lion | a large wooden bucket obj | tree rules |
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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