The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 30
After this, Rasalu strode on fifteen paces, till he came to the seventy drums, that everyone who came to play chaupur with the king had to beat in turn; and he beat them so loudly that he broke them all.
Who acts: Rasalu, maiden, everyone · What happens: stride, come, play, have, beat, break · To what, where: seventy drums, chaupur, turn, drums
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasalu, maiden, everyone), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 strode | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 this | punct |
| 4 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 strode | nsubj |
| 5 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 paces | case |
| 7 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 paces | nummod |
| 8 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 strode | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strode | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 drums | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 drums | det |
| 15 | seventy | seventy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 drums | amod |
| 16 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 had | mark |
| 19 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 28 had | nsubj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 play | mark |
| 23 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 came | xcomp |
| 24 | chaupur | chaupur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 play | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 king | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 play | obl |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 beat | mark |
| 30 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 had | xcomp |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 turn | case |
| 32 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 beat | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 beat | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 beat | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 beat | nsubj |
| 36 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strode | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 beat | obj |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 loudly | advmod |
| 39 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 36 beat | advmod |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 broke | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 broke | nsubj |
| 42 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 beat | advcl |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 broke | obj |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 strode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stride | past | Rasalu | after this | on fifteen paces | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pace=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | maiden | the seventy drums | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to drum=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | who nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | play | to-infinitive | chaupur | with the king | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme with king=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | have | past | everyone | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | beat | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | turn | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in turn=Location | ||||
| 7 | beat | past | maiden | drums = drum | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | |||
| 8 | break | past | maiden | drums = drum | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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