Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 14

Come, then, says the Barmecide, the cloth shall be removed, and you shall taste of my wines, which I may say, without vanity, are the best in Persia.

Who acts: you, Barmecide, wines · What happens: come, say, remove, taste, be · To what, where: cloth, Persia · 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 (you, Barmecide, wines), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 says	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Barmecide	det
7	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 removed	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cloth	det
10	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 removed	nsubj:pass
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 removed	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 removed	aux:pass
13	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Barmecide	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taste	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 taste	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 taste	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 taste	aux
18	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 wines	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wines	nmod:poss
21	wines	wine	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 taste	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 say	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 say	nsubj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 say	nsubj
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 say	aux
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wines	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 vanity	punct
28	without	without	ADP	_	29 vanity	case
29	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taste	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 best	punct
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 best	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 best	det
33	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 Come	parataxis
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 Persia	case
35	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 best	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	the Barmecide			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	remove	shall · passive	the Barmecide not said here	the cloth				vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	taste	shall	you				of my wines; without vanity	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	may	my wines				I nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	present			Persia		good property	tree rules

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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 14