The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 102
So Rasalu took some of the bones lying about, and fashioned them into dice, and these he put into his pocket.
Who acts: Rasalu, bones, these · What happens: take, lie, put · To what, where: some, dice, pocket
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasalu, bones, these), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bones | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bones | det |
| 7 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 some | nmod |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 bones | acl |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 lying | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fashioned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fashioned | cc |
| 12 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | parataxis |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fashioned | nsubj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 dice | case |
| 15 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 18 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 put | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | nsubj |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 pocket | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 23 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl | ||
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Rasalu | some of the bones | dice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme into dice=Destination | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | the bones not said here | about property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | put | past | these | Rasalu's pocket | Rasalu nsubj | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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: «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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