The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 70

But he never even looked at them, and drawing the dice from his pocket, said to Sarkap, “We have played with your dice all this time.

Who acts: Rajah, We · What happens: not look, draw, say, play · To what, where: dice, pocket, Sarkap · Speech: someone speaks here

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, We), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 looked	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 looked	advmod
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 looked	advmod
5	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
10	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 said	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dice	det
12	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drawing	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 pocket	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pocket	nmod:poss
15	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drawing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drawing	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Sarkap	case
19	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 played	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 played	punct
22	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 played	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 played	aux
24	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 said	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 dice	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 dice	nmod:poss
27	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 played	obl
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 time	det:predet
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 played	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	participle	Rajah					at arms = arm	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
2	draw	gerund		the dice		Rajah's pocket			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent dice=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past			Sarkap				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sarkap=Recipient
4	play in a quote	present · perfect	We				time	with your dice	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dice=Theme

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 70

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 70