The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 50

Now, before they sat down to play, Rajah Sarkap fixed his stakes—on the first game, his kingdom; on the second, the wealth of the whole world, and on the third, his own head.

Who acts: kittens, Rajah · What happens: sit down, play, fix, stake · To what, where: stakes

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 (kittens, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 sat	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 play	mark
8	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sat	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fixed	punct
10	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fixed	nsubj
11	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Rajah	flat
12	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 play	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 stakes	nmod:poss
14	stakes	stake	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fixed	obj
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 game	punct
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 game	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 game	det
18	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 game	amod
19	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stakes	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 kingdom	punct
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 kingdom	nmod:poss
22	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 game	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 second	punct
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 second	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 second	det
26	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 sat	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wealth	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wealth	det
29	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 second	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
32	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 world	amod
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wealth	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 third	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 third	cc
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 third	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 third	det
38	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 second	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 head	punct
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 head	nmod:poss
41	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 head	amod
42	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 third	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	kittens = kitten		now	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	play	to-infinitive	kittens = kitten not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fix	past	Rajah	Rajah's stakes			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stake=Patient
4	stake		Rajah				nom stake «possession transitive»: poss=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 50

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 50