The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 83
Rasalu had started off to play chaupur[3] with King Sarkap.
What happens: start off, play · To what, where: Rasalu, 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: 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 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 started | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | aux |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 started | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 play | mark |
| 6 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 started | xcomp |
| 7 | chaupur | chaupur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 play | obj |
| 8 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 9 3 | punct |
| 9 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 chaupur | appos |
| 10 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 9 3 | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Sarkap | case |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sarkap | compound |
| 13 | Sarkap | Sarkap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 play | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past · perfect · passive | Rasalu | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | chaupur | with King Sarkap | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme with sarkap=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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