Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 18
The Barmecide could not but smile at the humour of his guest, and instead of being angry with him, I find, says he, thou art a complaisant fellow, and deservest to be entertained in my house.
Who acts: Barmecide, I · What happens: not smile, be, find, say, deserve, humour · To what, where: humour, house, guest · 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 (Barmecide, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Barmecide | det |
| 2 | Barmecide | barmecide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smile | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 smile | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 smile | advmod |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 smile | cc |
| 6 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 humour | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 humour | det |
| 9 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smile | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 guest | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 guest | nmod:poss |
| 12 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 humour | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 angry | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 angry | cc |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 18 angry | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 instead | fixed |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 angry | cop |
| 18 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 smile | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 angry | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 find | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 find | nsubj |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 smile | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 says | punct |
| 25 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 find | ccomp |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 art | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 he | punct |
| 28 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 art | nsubj |
| 29 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 says | ccomp |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 fellow | det |
| 31 | complaisant | complaisant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 fellow | amod |
| 32 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 art | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 deservest | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 deservest | cc |
| 35 | deservest | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 find | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 entertained | mark |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 entertained | cop |
| 38 | entertained | entertained | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 deservest | ccomp |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 house | case |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 house | nmod:poss |
| 41 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 entertained | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 smile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not smile | could | the Barmecide | the humour of Barmecide's guest | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | the Barmecide not said here | with Barmecide; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | present | I | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | deserve | present | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | I not said here | my house | entertained property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | humour | Barmecide's guest | nom humour «feeling 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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