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title: Several other nice dishes were served up in idea, which both of them… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Several other nice dishes were served up in idea, which both of them commended, and feasted on after the same manner. Who acts: both. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Schacabac., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 11

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Several other nice dishes were served up in idea, which both of them commended, and feasted on after the same manner.

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**Who acts:** both · **What happens:** serve up, commend, feast on · **To what, where:** Several other nice dishes, idea

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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 (both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:4:11
# text = Several other nice dishes were served up in idea, which both of them commended, and feasted on after the same manner.
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
12	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	commended	commend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	feasted	feast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve up** | past · passive |  | Several other nice dishes |  | idea |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in idea=Location |
| 2 | **commend** | past | both of nuts | idea |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **feast on** | participle | both of nuts *not said here* |  |  |  | after the same manner |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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