The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 89
The two old men sat cross-legged on the ground, and the chessboard rested on a slab, like a stone table, between them.
Who acts: chessboard · What happens: cross-legg, rest · To what, where: two old men, ground, slab
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chessboard), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cross-legged | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cross-legged | aux:pass |
| 6 | cross-legged | cross-legg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cross-legged | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rested | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rested | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chessboard | det |
| 13 | chessboard | chessboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rested | nsubj |
| 14 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cross-legged | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 slab | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 slab | det |
| 17 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rested | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 table | punct |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 table | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 table | det |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 table | compound |
| 22 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rested | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 them | punct |
| 24 | between | between | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rested | obl:agent |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cross-legged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross-legg | past · passive | the two old men | the ground | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rest | participle | the chessboard | a slab | like a stone table; eyes = eye obl:agent | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on slab=Location |
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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