Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 6

Schacabac, who saw neither bread nor meat, If I did not like it, you may be sure, says he, I should not eat so heartily of it.

Who acts: Schacabac, I, you · What happens: see, not like, be, say, not eat · To what, where: bread · 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, I, you), 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 saw	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	6 bread	det
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 meat	cc
8	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bread	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sure	punct
10	If	if	SCONJ	_	14 like	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 like	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 like	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 like	advmod
14	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sure	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 like	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 sure	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 sure	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 sure	cop
20	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sure	ccomp
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eat	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 he	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 eat	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 eat	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 eat	advmod
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 says	ccomp
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 heartily	advmod
30	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	28 eat	advmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 heartily	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	Schacabac	neither bread nor meat	who nsubj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus
2	not like a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	I	bread		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	is	may	you		sure property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not eat	should	Schacabac		I nsubj; heartily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 6