Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 50

It was in vain that he struggled and wrenched his arm to and fro, endeavouring to release it; the stone jaws of the Lion gripped him so tight that he was totally unable to effect his escape, and the Lion, deaf to all prayers and entreaties, had relapsed apparently into an insensible figure of stone.

Who acts: hand, Lion, stone jaws · What happens: be, struggle, wrench, fro, endeavour, release · To what, where: arm, hand, Lion, effect, insensible figure, stone

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 (hand, Lion, stone jaws), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vain	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vain	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 vain	case
4	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 struggled	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 struggled	nsubj
7	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vain	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wrenched	cc
9	wrenched	wrench	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 struggled	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arm	nmod:poss
11	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wrenched	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 fro	case
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fro	cc
14	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wrenched	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 endeavouring	punct
16	endeavouring	endeavour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fro	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 release	mark
18	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 endeavouring	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 release	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 gripped	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 jaws	det
22	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 jaws	compound
23	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 gripped	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Lion	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Lion	det
26	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 jaws	nmod
27	gripped	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vain	parataxis
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gripped	obj
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 tight	advmod
30	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 gripped	xcomp
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 unable	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 unable	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 unable	cop
34	totally	totally	ADV	_	35 unable	advmod
35	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 gripped	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 effect	mark
37	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 unable	xcomp
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 escape	nmod:poss
39	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 effect	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 deaf	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 deaf	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Lion	det
43	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 deaf	nsubj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 deaf	punct
45	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 vain	conj
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 prayers	case
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 prayers	det
48	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 deaf	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 entreaties	cc
50	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 prayers	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 relapsed	punct
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 relapsed	aux
53	relapsed	relapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 vain	conj
54	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	53 relapsed	advmod
55	into	into	ADP	_	58 figure	case
56	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 figure	det
57	insensible	insensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 figure	amod
58	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 relapsed	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 stone	case
60	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 figure	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 vain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	hand			vain property	tree rules
2	struggle	past	Lion				vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wrench	past	Lion not said here	Lion's arm			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient
4	fro	infinitive	Lion not said here				tree rules
5	endeavour	gerund	Lion not said here				tree rules
6	release	to-infinitive	Lion not said here	hand			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer it=Source
7	grip	past	the stone jaws of the Lion	Lion		tight property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer
8	is	past	Lion	effect Lion's escape		totally, unable property	tree rules
9	be		the Lion			to all prayers and entreaties	tree rules
10	relapse	past · perfect	hand not said here		a insensible figure of stone	apparently property	tree rules
11	escape		Lion				nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent
12	figure			stone			nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 50

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 50