The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 51
So, likewise, Rajah Rasalu fixed his stakes—on the first game, his arms; on the second, his horse, and on the third, his own head.
Who acts: Rajah · What happens: fix, stake · To what, where: stakes, first game
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 | _ | 3 likewise | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 likewise | punct |
| 3 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 7 fixed | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 likewise | punct |
| 5 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fixed | nsubj |
| 6 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Rajah | flat |
| 7 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 stakes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | stakes | stake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fixed | obj |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 game | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 game | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 game | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 game | amod |
| 14 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fixed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 arms | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arms | nmod:poss |
| 17 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 game | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 second | punct |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 second | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 second | det |
| 21 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 fixed | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 horse | punct |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 horse | nmod:poss |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 second | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 third | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 third | cc |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 third | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 third | det |
| 29 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 second | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 head | punct |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 head | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 head | amod |
| 33 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 third | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past | Rajah | Rajah's stakes | the first game and Rajah's arms | likewise property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stake=Patient | ||
| 2 | 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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