Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 15
He then filled both their glasses out of an empty decanter.
Who acts: Barmecide · What happens: fill · To what, where: glasses, empty decanter
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 (Barmecide), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 filled | advmod |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 glasses | det:predet |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 glasses | nmod:poss |
| 6 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 filled | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 decanter | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 decanter | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 decanter | det |
| 10 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 decanter | amod |
| 11 | decanter | decanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | Barmecide | wines's glasses | a empty decanter | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent glass=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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