The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 46
The ceiling and floor were covered with peculiar cloth that had seven wide strips of red alternating with a like number of yellow stripes.
Who acts: peculiar cloth, seven wide strips · What happens: cover, have, alternate · To what, where: ceiling, seven wide strips
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peculiar cloth, seven wide strips), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ceiling | det |
| 2 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 floor | cc |
| 4 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ceiling | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 covered | aux:pass |
| 6 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 cloth | case |
| 8 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cloth | compound |
| 9 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 covered | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cloth | acl:relcl |
| 12 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 strips | nummod |
| 13 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 strips | amod |
| 14 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 alternating | mark |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 alternating | amod |
| 17 | alternating | alternate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 strips | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 number | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 number | det |
| 20 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 number | amod |
| 21 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 alternating | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 stripes | case |
| 23 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stripes | amod |
| 24 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 number | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the ceiling and floor | with peculiar cloth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with cloth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | peculiar cloth | seven wide strips | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Patient | ||||
| 3 | alternate | gerund | seven wide strips not said here | with a like number of yellow stripes | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with number=Co-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: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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