Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 42
“Very well,” said the Lion, “place your bucket under my mouth and I will vomit gold into it; but as soon as the bucket is nearly full you must inform me of the fact, as on no account must a single piece of gold fall to the ground.
Who acts: Lion, bucket, you · What happens: say, vomit, be, inform · To what, where: place, gold, Lion · 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, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lion | det |
| 8 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 place | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 place | punct |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bucket | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 place | nmod |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 mouth | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 place | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 vomit | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 vomit | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 vomit | aux |
| 20 | vomit | vomit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 vomit | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 vomit | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 inform | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 inform | cc |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 soon | advmod |
| 27 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 inform | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 full | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bucket | det |
| 30 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 full | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 full | cop |
| 32 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 33 full | advmod |
| 33 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 soon | advcl |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 inform | nsubj |
| 35 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 inform | aux |
| 36 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 inform | iobj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 fact | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 fact | det |
| 40 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 inform | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 piece | punct |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 49 piece | case |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 as | fixed |
| 44 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 45 account | det |
| 45 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 piece | nsubj |
| 46 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 piece | aux |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 piece | det |
| 48 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 piece | amod |
| 49 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 inform | conj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 fall | case |
| 51 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 fall | compound |
| 52 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 piece | nmod |
| 53 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 ground | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 ground | det |
| 55 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 fall | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Lion | place your bucket under my mouth | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | vomit in a quote | future | the Lion = lion | gold | gold | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the bucket | full, nearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | inform speech: other in a quote | must | you | the Lion = lion | of the fact; a single piece no account of gold fall to the ground conj; soon property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of fact=Topic |
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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