Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 16
Schacabac would have excused himself from drinking so much at once, because he said he was a little quarrelsome in his liquor; however, being prest to it, he pretended to take it off, having before-hand praised the colour, and afterwards the flavour.
Who acts: Schacabac, hand · What happens: excuse, drink, say, be, pretend, take off · To what, where: Schacabac, little quarrelsome, liquor, flavour, colour · 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, hand), 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 excused | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 excused | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 excused | aux |
| 4 | excused | excuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 excused | obj |
| 6 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 7 drinking | mark |
| 7 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 excused | advcl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 drinking | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 much | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 said | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 excused | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 quarrelsome | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 quarrelsome | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 quarrelsome | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 quarrelsome | amod |
| 20 | quarrelsome | quarrelsome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 liquor | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 liquor | nmod:poss |
| 23 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 quarrelsome | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 prest | punct |
| 25 | however | however | ADV | _ | 28 prest | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 however | punct |
| 27 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 prest | cop |
| 28 | prest | pre | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 excused | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 prest | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pretended | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 pretended | nsubj |
| 33 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 excused | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 take | mark |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 pretended | xcomp |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 take | obj |
| 37 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 take | compound:prt |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 having | punct |
| 39 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 pretended | advcl |
| 40 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 43 praised | mark |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 before | punct |
| 42 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 praised | nsubj |
| 43 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 having | advcl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 colour | det |
| 45 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 praised | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 flavour | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 flavour | cc |
| 48 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 50 flavour | advmod |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 flavour | det |
| 50 | flavour | flavour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pretended | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 excused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excuse | would · perfect | Schacabac | Schacabac | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | gerund | Schacabac not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Schacabac | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Schacabac | a little quarrelsome | Schacabac's liquor | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | gerund | Schacabac not said here | liquor | however, pre property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | pretend | past | Schacabac | the flavour | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | take off | to-infinitive | Schacabac not said here | liquor | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 8 | have | gerund | Schacabac not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | praise | past | hand | the colour | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=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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