Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 20
Upon which calling for his supper, the rice-soup, the goose, the pistachio-lamb, the several other nice dishes, with the desert, the lozenges, and all the variety of Persian wines, were served up successively one after another; and Schacabac was feasted, in reality, with those very things which he had before been entertained within imagination.
Who acts: things · What happens: call, serve up, feast, be · To what, where: rice soup, variety, Schacabac, reality · 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 (things), 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 | _ | 3 calling | mark |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 calling | nsubj |
| 3 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 supper | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 supper | nmod:poss |
| 6 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calling | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 calling | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 soup | det |
| 9 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 soup | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 rice | punct |
| 11 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calling | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 goose | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 goose | det |
| 14 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 soup | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lamb | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lamb | det |
| 17 | pistachio | pistachio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lamb | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 pistachio | punct |
| 19 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 soup | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 calling | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dishes | det |
| 22 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 dishes | amod |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 dishes | amod |
| 24 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 dishes | amod |
| 25 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 calling | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 desert | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 desert | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 desert | det |
| 29 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dishes | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 lozenges | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 lozenges | det |
| 32 | lozenges | lozenge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dishes | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 served | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 served | cc |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 variety | det:predet |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 variety | det |
| 37 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 served | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 wines | case |
| 39 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 wines | amod |
| 40 | wines | wine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 served | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 wines | punct |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 served | aux:pass |
| 43 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 dishes | parataxis |
| 44 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 served | compound:prt |
| 45 | successively | successively | ADV | _ | 46 one | advmod |
| 46 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 served | obj |
| 47 | after | after | ADP | _ | 48 another | case |
| 48 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 one | nmod |
| 49 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 feasted | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 feasted | cc |
| 51 | Schacabac | Schacabac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 feasted | nsubj |
| 52 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 feasted | aux:pass |
| 53 | feasted | feast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 served | conj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 reality | punct |
| 55 | in | in | ADP | _ | 56 reality | case |
| 56 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 feasted | obl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 things | punct |
| 58 | with | with | ADP | _ | 61 things | case |
| 59 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 61 things | det |
| 60 | very | very | ADV | _ | 61 things | advmod |
| 61 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 feasted | obl |
| 62 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 67 entertained | nsubj |
| 63 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 67 entertained | nsubj |
| 64 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 67 entertained | aux |
| 65 | before | before | ADV | _ | 67 entertained | advmod |
| 66 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 67 entertained | cop |
| 67 | entertained | entertained | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 things | acl:relcl |
| 68 | within | within | ADP | _ | 69 imagination | case |
| 69 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 entertained | obl |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 calling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | the rice soup and the goose and the pistachio lamb | for Barmecide's supper; which nsubj; the several other nice dishes and the desert and the lozenges obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent soup=Theme dish=Result | ||||
| 2 | serve up | past · passive | all variety | of Persian wines; one obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feast | past · passive | Schacabac | reality | with that things | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | that things | within imagination; Schacabac nsubj; before, entertained 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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