Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 25
But as soon as the bucket is nearly full you must tell me, as on no account must a single morsel of gold fall to the ground.”
Who acts: bucket, you · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: me · 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 (bucket, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 tell | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 tell | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 full | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bucket | det |
| 6 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 full | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 full | cop |
| 8 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 9 full | advmod |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 soon | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | aux |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 must | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 must | mark |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 account | case |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 account | det |
| 18 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 must | obl |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | ccomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 morsel | det |
| 21 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 morsel | amod |
| 22 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 must | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fall | case |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fall | compound |
| 25 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 morsel | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 ground | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ground | det |
| 28 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fall | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the bucket | full, nearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | must | you | me | soon property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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