Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 10
Schacabac was wonderfully delighted with the taste of it, which is like nothing, says he, I ever eat before.
Who acts: Schacabac, taste · What happens: be, say, eat, taste · To what, where: taste · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Schacabac, taste), 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 | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 3 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 4 delighted | advmod |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 taste | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 taste | det |
| 7 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taste | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nothing | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 nothing | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 nothing | cop |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 nothing | case |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 taste | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | parataxis |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 eat | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 eat | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 eat | nsubj |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 eat | advmod |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 says | ccomp |
| 22 | before | before | ADV | _ | 21 eat | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Schacabac | with the taste of taste; delighted, wonderfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the taste of taste | like nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | eat | present | Schacabac | ever | I nsubj; before property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | taste | taste | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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