The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 111
Then Mobarec laid on the ground two large mats, on the edges whereof he scattered some precious stones, musk, and amber.
Who acts: Mobarec · What happens: lay, scatter · To what, where: two large mats, ground, precious stones
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mobarec), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 laid | advmod |
| 2 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obl |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 mats | nummod |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mats | amod |
| 9 | mats | mat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 laid | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 edges | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 edges | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 edges | det |
| 13 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 laid | obl |
| 14 | whereof | whereof | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 scattered | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 scattered | nsubj |
| 16 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 stones | det |
| 18 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stones | amod |
| 19 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 scattered | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 musk | punct |
| 21 | musk | musk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stones | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 amber | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 amber | cc |
| 24 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scattered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | Mobarec | two large mats | the ground | then | on the edges | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mat=Theme on ground=Destination | |
| 2 | scatter | past | Mobarec | some precious stones and musk | amber obl; whereof property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
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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