Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 28
When the bucket was nearly full the young man informed the Lion of the fact, and forthwith the stream of gold came to an end; and the youth, having thanked the Lion most heartily for his munificent gift, carried off his bucket of gold in triumph to his mother.
Who acts: bucket, young man, youth, Lion · What happens: be, inform, come, thank, carry off, gift · To what, where: Lion, end, youth, bucket, mother, triumph
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, young man, youth, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 full | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bucket | det |
| 3 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 full | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 full | cop |
| 5 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 6 full | advmod |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 informed | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 informed | nsubj |
| 10 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lion | det |
| 12 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 informed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fact | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fact | det |
| 15 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Lion | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 18 | forthwith | forthwith | ADP | _ | 20 stream | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stream | det |
| 20 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stream | nmod |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 informed | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 end | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 end | det |
| 26 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 youth | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 youth | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 youth | det |
| 30 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 carried | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 thanked | punct |
| 32 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 thanked | aux |
| 33 | thanked | thank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 youth | acl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Lion | det |
| 35 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 thanked | obj |
| 36 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 37 heartily | advmod |
| 37 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 33 thanked | advmod |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 gift | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 gift | nmod:poss |
| 40 | munificent | munificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 gift | amod |
| 41 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 thanked | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 carried | punct |
| 43 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 informed | parataxis |
| 44 | off | off | ADP | _ | 43 carried | compound:prt |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 bucket | nmod:poss |
| 46 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 carried | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 gold | case |
| 48 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 bucket | nmod |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 triumph | case |
| 50 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 carried | obl |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 mother | case |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 mother | nmod:poss |
| 53 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 carried | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the bucket | full, nearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inform speech: other | past | the young man | the Lion of the fact | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the young man not said here | to a end | forthwith the stream of gold | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | gerund · perfect | the youth not said here | the Lion | for Lion's munificent gift; heartily property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent lion=Theme for gift=Attribute | |||
| 5 | carry off | past | the youth | Lion's bucket of gold | Lion's mother | triumph | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme to mother=Destination | ||
| 6 | gift | Lion | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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