Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 2
Upon hearing Schacabac’s complaint, he desired him to sit down and fall on.
Who acts: Schacabac · What happens: hear, desire, sit down, fall on, complain · To what, where: complaint, Barmecide
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), 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 | Upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 desired | advcl |
| 3 | Schacabac | Schacabac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 complaint | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Schacabac | case |
| 5 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 desired | nsubj |
| 8 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 desired | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sit | mark |
| 11 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 desired | xcomp |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 sit | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fall | cc |
| 14 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sit | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 fall | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | Schacabac not said here | Schacabac's complaint | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer complaint=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | desire | past | Schacabac | Barmecide | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit down not said to happen | to-infinitive | Schacabac not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fall on | infinitive | Schacabac not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | complain | Schacabac | nom complaint «state intransitive»: 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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