The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 52
Then they began to play, and it fell to Rasalu’s lot to make the first move.
Who acts: stakes, head · What happens: begin, play, fall, make · To what, where: first move
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 (stakes, head), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 play | mark |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fell | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 lot | case |
| 11 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lot | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Rasalu | case |
| 13 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fell | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 move | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 move | amod |
| 18 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | stakes = stake | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | stakes = stake not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | head | to Rasalu's lot | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to lot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | head not said here | the first move | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset move=Product |
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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