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title: Come, then, says the Barmecide, the cloth shall be removed, and you… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Come, then, says the Barmecide, the cloth shall be removed, and you shall taste of my wines, which I may say, without vanity, are the best in Persia. Who acts: you, Barmecide, wines. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Schacabac., with its depend
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 14

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Come, then, says the Barmecide, the cloth shall be removed, and you shall taste of my wines, which I may say, without vanity, are the best in Persia.

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**Who acts:** you, Barmecide, wines · **What happens:** come, say, remove, taste, be · **To what, where:** cloth, Persia · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Barmecide, wines), 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:pg62868:4:14
# text = Come, then, says the Barmecide, the cloth shall be removed, and you shall taste of my wines, which I may say, without vanity, are the best in Persia.
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	wines	wine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	without	without	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	parataxis	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Barmecide |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **remove** | shall · passive | the Barmecide *not said here* | the cloth |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **taste** | shall | you |  |  |  |  | of my wines; without vanity | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | may | my wines |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present |  |  |  | Persia |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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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