Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 45

The covetous fellow shook the bucket slightly from time to time in order to make the gold lie well together and so to obtain a larger quantity; and, overcome by greed, he could not bring himself to inform the Lion that the bucket was nearly full until it brimmed over and a piece of gold, slipping off the heap, fell to the ground.

Who acts: covetous fellow, fellow, bucket · What happens: shake, make, lie, obtain, overcome, not bring · To what, where: bucket, order, gold, larger quantity, fellow, Lion

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 (covetous fellow, fellow, bucket), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fellow	det
2	covetous	covetous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fellow	amod
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	nsubj
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bucket	det
6	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	obj
7	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	4 shook	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 time	case
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 time	case
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 order	case
13	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 lie	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gold	det
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
18	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	parataxis
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 together	advmod
20	together	together	ADV	_	18 lie	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 obtain	cc
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 obtain	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 obtain	mark
24	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 lie	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 quantity	det
26	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 quantity	amod
27	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 obtain	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 overcome	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 overcome	cc
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 overcome	punct
31	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 shook	parataxis
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 greed	case
33	greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 overcome	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 bring	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 bring	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 bring	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 bring	advmod
38	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 overcome	conj
39	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 bring	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 inform	mark
41	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 bring	xcomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Lion	det
43	Lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 inform	obj
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 full	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 bucket	det
46	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 full	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 full	cop
48	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	49 full	advmod
49	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 inform	advcl
50	until	until	SCONJ	_	52 brimmed	mark
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 brimmed	nsubj
52	brimmed	brim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 full	advcl
53	over	over	ADV	_	52 brimmed	advmod
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 piece	cc
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 piece	det
56	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 brimmed	conj
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 gold	case
58	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 piece	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 slipping	punct
60	slipping	slip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 brimmed	advcl
61	off	off	ADP	_	63 heap	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 heap	det
63	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 slipping	obl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 fell	punct
65	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 brimmed	conj
66	to	to	ADP	_	68 ground	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 ground	det
68	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 fell	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	the covetous fellow	the bucket		order	time	slightly property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme in order=Trajectory
2	make	to-infinitive		the gold					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gold=Product
3	lie	present						together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	obtain	to-infinitive		a larger quantity					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset quantity=Theme
5	overcome	participle						by greed	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
6	not bring	could	fellow	fellow					tree rules
7	inform speech: other	to-infinitive	fellow not said here		the Lion				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient
8	is	past	the bucket					full, nearly property	tree rules
9	brim over	past	bucket					a piece of gold conj; over property	tree rules
10	slip off	gerund	bucket not said here	the heap					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent heap=Patient
11	fall	past	bucket not said here					to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 45

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 45