Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 1
Schacabac being reduced to great poverty, and having eat nothing for two days together, made a visit to a noble Barmecide, in Persia, who was very hospitable, but withal a great humourist.—The Barmecide was sitting at his table, that seemed ready covered for an entertainment.
Who acts: Persia, Barmecide, that · What happens: reduce, eat, make, be, sit, seem · To what, where: Schacabac, great poverty, nothing, visit, Persia, table
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Schacabac.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Persia, Barmecide, that), 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 | Schacabac | Schacabac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reduced | nsubj |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 reduced | aux:pass |
| 3 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 poverty | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 poverty | amod |
| 6 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reduced | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eat | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 eat | cc |
| 9 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 eat | aux |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reduced | parataxis |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 eat | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 days | case |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 days | nummod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eat | obl |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 eat | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 visit | det |
| 19 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Barmecide | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Barmecide | det |
| 22 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Barmecide | amod |
| 23 | Barmecide | barmecide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Persia | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Persia | case |
| 26 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hospitable | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 hospitable | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 hospitable | cop |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 hospitable | advmod |
| 31 | hospitable | hospitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Persia | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 withal | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 withal | cc |
| 34 | withal | withal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 made | parataxis |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 humourist | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 humourist | amod |
| 37 | humourist | humourist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 withal | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reduced | punct |
| 39 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 sitting | punct |
| 40 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Barmecide | det |
| 41 | Barmecide | Barmecide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 sitting | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 sitting | aux |
| 43 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 reduced | conj |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 table | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 table | nmod:poss |
| 46 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sitting | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 seemed | punct |
| 48 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 seemed | nsubj |
| 49 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 sitting | parataxis |
| 50 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 seemed | xcomp |
| 51 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 ready | xcomp |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 54 entertainment | case |
| 53 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 entertainment | det |
| 54 | entertainment | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 covered | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reduce | gerund · passive | Schacabac | to great poverty goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to poverty=Goal | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | nothing | day | together property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | past | a visit | Persia | to a noble Barmecide | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset visit=Product | |||
| 4 | is | past | Persia | hospitable property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sit | past · progressive | the Barmecide | Barmecide's table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location | ||||
| 6 | seem | past | that | ready property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | cover | participle | that not said here | for a entertainment | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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