Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 47
“The largest piece of gold of all has stuck in my throat.
What happens: stick · To what, where: largest piece, throat
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: 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 | _ | 10 stuck | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 piece | det |
| 3 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 piece | amod |
| 4 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuck | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 piece | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 piece | nmod |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stuck | aux |
| 10 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 throat | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 throat | nmod:poss |
| 13 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuck | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the largest piece of gold of all | my throat | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in throat=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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