---
title: Since thou canst accommodate thyself to my humour, we will now eat t… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Since thou canst accommodate thyself to my humour, we will now eat together in good earnest. Who acts: thou, we, my. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/4/19/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Oriental tales, for the entertainment…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/) / [The Story of Schacabac.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/4/) / 19

# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 19

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Since thou canst accommodate thyself to my humour, we will now eat together in good earnest.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** thou, we, my · **What happens:** accommodate, eat, humour · **To what, where:** thyself, humour

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (thou, we, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:4:19
# text = Since thou canst accommodate thyself to my humour, we will now eat together in good earnest.
1	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	accommodate	accommodate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	humour	humour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
17	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accommodate** | can | thou | thyself |  |  |  | to my humour *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent thyself=Patient to humour=Goal |
| 2 | **eat** | future | we |  |  |  | now | together *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **humour** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom humour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/4/18/)
- next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/4/20/)
- ↑ back to [The Story of Schacabac.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/4/)