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title: Then Mobarec laid on the ground two large mats, on the edges whereof… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Mobarec laid on the ground two large mats, on the edges whereof he scattered some precious stones, musk, and amber. Who acts: Mobarec. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 111

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Then Mobarec laid on the ground two large mats, on the edges whereof he scattered some precious stones, musk, and amber.

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**Who acts:** Mobarec · **What happens:** lay, scatter · **To what, where:** two large mats, ground, precious stones

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mobarec), 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:pg65965:17:111
# text = Then Mobarec laid on the ground two large mats, on the edges whereof he scattered some precious stones, musk, and amber.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Mobarec	Mobarec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mats	mat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	whereof	whereof	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	musk	musk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	amber	amber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | Mobarec | two large mats |  | the ground | then | on the edges | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mat=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 2 | **scatter** | past | Mobarec | some precious stones and musk |  |  |  | amber *obl*; whereof *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |

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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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