Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 27
He held the bucket below the Lion’s mouth, and the Lion forthwith began to vomit into it a stream of gold pieces.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: hold, begin, vomit · To what, where: bucket, mouth, stream
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bucket | det |
| 4 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obj |
| 5 | below | below | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lion | det |
| 7 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Lion | case |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lion | det |
| 13 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 began | nsubj |
| 14 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 15 began | advmod |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 vomit | mark |
| 17 | vomit | vomit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 vomit | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stream | det |
| 21 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vomit | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 pieces | case |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pieces | compound |
| 24 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stream | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Lion | the bucket | the Lion's mouth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme below mouth=Location | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the Lion | forthwith property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | vomit | to-infinitive | the Lion not said here | a stream of gold pieces | bucket | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stream=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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