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title: So the elder brother, trembling with eagerness, held his bucket as d… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So the elder brother, trembling with eagerness, held his bucket as directed, and forthwith a stream of gold pieces began to pour from the Lion’s mouth into the bucket. Who acts: elder brother. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Li
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 44

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So the elder brother, trembling with eagerness, held his bucket as directed, and forthwith a stream of gold pieces began to pour from the Lion’s mouth into the bucket.

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**Who acts:** elder brother · **What happens:** tremble, hold, direct, begin, pour · **To what, where:** bucket, mouth

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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 (elder brother), 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:pg75000:18:44
# text = So the elder brother, trembling with eagerness, held his bucket as directed, and forthwith a stream of gold pieces began to pour from the Lion’s mouth into the bucket.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	directed	direct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	forthwith	forthwith	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | gerund | the elder brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with eagerness | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | past | the elder brother | place's bucket |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme |
| 3 | **direct** | participle | the elder brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **begin** | past | the elder brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forthwith a stream of gold pieces | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **pour** | to-infinitive | the elder brother *not said here* |  |  | the Lion's mouth |  | into the bucket | vn pour-9.5 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from mouth=Initial\_Location into bucket=Destination |

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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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