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title: When the bucket was nearly full the young man informed the Lion of t… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: When the bucket was nearly full the young man informed the Lion of the fact, and forthwith the stream of gold came to an end; and the youth, having thanked the Lion most heartily for his munificent gift, carried off his bucket of gold in triumph to his mother. Who acts: bucket, young man, youth, Lio
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 28

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When the bucket was nearly full the young man informed the Lion of the fact, and forthwith the stream of gold came to an end; and the youth, having thanked the Lion most heartily for his munificent gift, carried off his bucket of gold in triumph to his mother.

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**Who acts:** bucket, young man, youth, Lion · **What happens:** be, inform, come, thank, carry off, gift · **To what, where:** Lion, end, youth, bucket, mother, triumph

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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 (bucket, young man, youth, Lion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:18:28
# text = When the bucket was nearly full the young man informed the Lion of the fact, and forthwith the stream of gold came to an end; and the youth, having thanked the Lion most heartily for his munificent gift, carried off his bucket of gold in triumph to his mother.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	informed	inform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	forthwith	forthwith	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	aux	_	_
33	thanked	thank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	37	advmod	_	_
37	heartily	heartily	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	munificent	munificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
44	off	off	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the bucket |  |  |  |  | full, nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | past | the young man |  | the Lion of the fact |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient |
| 3 | **come** | past | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  | to a end | forthwith the stream of gold | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund · perfect |  | the youth *not said here* | the Lion |  |  | for Lion's munificent gift; heartily *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent lion=Theme for gift=Attribute |
| 5 | **carry off** | past | the youth | Lion's bucket of gold | Lion's mother | triumph |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme to mother=Destination |
| 6 | **gift** |  | Lion |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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