Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 24
“Very good,” replied the Lion, “you must now act as follows: hold the bucket under my mouth, and I will vomit gold into it.
Who acts: Lion, you · What happens: reply, act, follow, hold, vomit · To what, where: bucket, mouth, gold · 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lion | det |
| 8 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 act | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 act | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 act | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 act | aux |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 act | advmod |
| 14 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | advcl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 follows | mark |
| 16 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 act | advcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 hold | punct |
| 18 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 act | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bucket | det |
| 20 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hold | obj |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 mouth | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hold | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 vomit | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 vomit | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 vomit | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 vomit | aux |
| 28 | vomit | vomit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hold | conj |
| 29 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 vomit | obj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 vomit | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | act in a quote | must | you | now | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | follow in a quote | present | you not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hold in a quote | infinitive | the bucket | my mouth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme under mouth=Location | ||||
| 5 | vomit in a quote | future | the Lion = lion | gold | bucket | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
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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