The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 103
Then, bidding adieu to the headless corpse, he went on his way to play chaupur with the king.
Who acts: Rasalu · What happens: bid, go, play · To what, where: adieu, way, chaupur
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), 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 | 11 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 went | advcl |
| 4 | adieu | adieu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bidding | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 corpse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 corpse | det |
| 7 | headless | headless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 corpse | amod |
| 8 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bidding | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bidding | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 play | mark |
| 16 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | advcl |
| 17 | chaupur | chaupur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 play | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 king | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 play | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | gerund | Rasalu not said here | adieu | to the headless corpse | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | Rasalu | Rasalu's way | then | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||
| 3 | play | to-infinitive | Rasalu not said here | chaupur | with the king | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme with king=Co-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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