Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 7
You oblige me mightily, replied the Barmecide, pray let me help you to this leg of goose.
Who acts: You, me · What happens: oblige, reply, pray, let, help · To what, where: me, Barmecide, you
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 (You, me), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 oblige | nsubj |
| 2 | oblige | oblige | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 oblige | obj |
| 4 | mightily | mightily | ADV | _ | 2 oblige | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 oblige | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Barmecide | det |
| 8 | Barmecide | Barmecide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pray | punct |
| 10 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 oblige | conj |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pray | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 leg | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 leg | det |
| 17 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 help | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 goose | case |
| 19 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leg | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 oblige | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | present | You | me | mightily property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | You not said here | the Barmecide | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent barmecide=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pray | present | You not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | You not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | help | infinitive | me not said here | you | to this leg of goose | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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