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title: The ceiling and floor were covered with peculiar cloth that had seve… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The ceiling and floor were covered with peculiar cloth that had seven wide strips of red alternating with a like number of yellow stripes. Who acts: peculiar cloth, seven wide strips. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15, with i
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 46

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The ceiling and floor were covered with peculiar cloth that had seven wide strips of red alternating with a like number of yellow stripes.

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**Who acts:** peculiar cloth, seven wide strips · **What happens:** cover, have, alternate · **To what, where:** ceiling, seven wide strips

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peculiar cloth, seven wide strips), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:15:47
# text = The ceiling and floor were covered with peculiar cloth that had seven wide strips of red alternating with a like number of yellow stripes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	alternating	alternate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the ceiling and floor |  |  |  | with peculiar cloth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with cloth=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | peculiar cloth | seven wide strips |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Patient |
| 3 | **alternate** | gerund | seven wide strips *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a like number of yellow stripes | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with number=Co-Patient |

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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.

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**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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