Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 44
So the elder brother, trembling with eagerness, held his bucket as directed, and forthwith a stream of gold pieces began to pour from the Lion’s mouth into the bucket.
Who acts: elder brother · What happens: tremble, hold, direct, begin, pour · To what, where: bucket, mouth
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 (elder brother), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 held | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 trembling | punct |
| 6 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 brother | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 eagerness | case |
| 8 | eagerness | eagerness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trembling | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bucket | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 directed | mark |
| 14 | directed | direct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 held | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 began | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 began | cc |
| 17 | forthwith | forthwith | ADP | _ | 19 stream | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stream | det |
| 19 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 began | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pieces | case |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pieces | compound |
| 22 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stream | nmod |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 held | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 pour | mark |
| 25 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 began | xcomp |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 mouth | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Lion | det |
| 28 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 Lion | case |
| 30 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pour | obl |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 bucket | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bucket | det |
| 33 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pour | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | the elder brother not said here | with eagerness | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | the elder brother | place's bucket | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme | ||||
| 3 | direct | participle | the elder brother not said here | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | the elder brother not said here | forthwith a stream of gold pieces | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | pour | to-infinitive | the elder brother not said here | the Lion's mouth | into the bucket | vn pour-9.5 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from mouth=Initial_Location into bucket=Destination |
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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