Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 12
This was followed by an invisible desert, no part of which delighted Schacabac so much as a certain lozenge, which the Barmecide told him was a sweet-meat of his own invention.
Who acts: invisible desert, part, Barmecide, Schacabac · What happens: follow, delight, tell, be, invent · To what, where: This, Schacabac, certain lozenge, sweet meat · 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 (invisible desert, part, Barmecide, Schacabac), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | aux:pass |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 desert | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 desert | det |
| 6 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 desert | amod |
| 7 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 part | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 part | det |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 desert | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 delighted | nsubj |
| 13 | delighted | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 part | acl:relcl |
| 14 | Schacabac | Schacabac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 delighted | obj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 lozenge | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 lozenge | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lozenge | det |
| 19 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lozenge | amod |
| 20 | lozenge | lozenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 delighted | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 told | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Barmecide | det |
| 24 | Barmecide | Barmecide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 told | nsubj |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lozenge | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 meat | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 meat | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 meat | det |
| 29 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 meat | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 sweet | punct |
| 31 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 told | ccomp |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 invention | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 invention | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 invention | amod |
| 35 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 meat | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · passive | a invisible desert | This | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | delight | past | no part | Schacabac | a certain lozenge advcl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus schacabac=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the Barmecide | a certain lozenge | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Barmecide | a sweet meat | of Schacabac's own invention | tree rules | |||
| 5 | invent | Schacabac | nom invention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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