Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 55
I put my hand into the Lion’s mouth in order to extract a lump of gold which was stuck in his throat, when all of a sudden he closed his jaws, and gripped my arm, and now I am unable to effect my escape.”
Who acts: I, lump, Lion, my · What happens: put, extract, be, close, grip, escape · To what, where: hand, mouth, lump, throat, jaws, arm
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 (I, lump, Lion, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lion | det |
| 7 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Lion | case |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 order | case |
| 11 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 extract | mark |
| 13 | extract | extract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 put | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lump | det |
| 15 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 extract | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lump | nmod |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 stuck | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stuck | cop |
| 20 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lump | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 throat | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 throat | nmod:poss |
| 23 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stuck | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 all | punct |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 all | advmod |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 stuck | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 sudden | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 sudden | det |
| 29 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 all | nmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 closed | nsubj |
| 31 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 all | acl:relcl |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 33 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 closed | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 gripped | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 gripped | cc |
| 36 | gripped | grip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | parataxis |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 arm | nmod:poss |
| 38 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gripped | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 unable | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 unable | cc |
| 41 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 unable | advmod |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 unable | nsubj |
| 43 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 unable | cop |
| 44 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 gripped | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 effect | mark |
| 46 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 unable | xcomp |
| 47 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 escape | nmod:poss |
| 48 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 unable | xcomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | I | my hand | the Lion's mouth | in order | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in order=Destination | ||
| 2 | extract | to-infinitive | I not said here | a lump of gold | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a lump of gold | Lion's throat | stuck property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | close | past | Lion | Lion's jaws | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Patient | ||||
| 5 | grip | past | my arm | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | present | I | effect | now | my escape xcomp; unable property | tree rules | ||
| 7 | escape | my | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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