The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 49
So Rajah Rasalu put the kitten in his pocket, and went to play chaupur with the king.
Who acts: Rajah · What happens: put, go, play · To what, where: kitten, pocket, chaupur
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 (Rajah), 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 | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 2 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Rajah | flat |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kitten | det |
| 6 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pocket | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 9 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl | ||
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 play | mark |
| 14 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | xcomp |
| 15 | chaupur | chaupur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 play | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 king | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 play | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Rajah | the kitten | Rajah's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kitten=Theme in pocket=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past | Rajah not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | play | to-infinitive | Rajah 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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