The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 31

But to this I replied that, though I should be grieved to part company with such honest gentlemen, I would not be turned from my resolution on that account.

Who acts: this, my · What happens: reply, grieve, not turn, resolve · To what, where: that, I, resolution, account

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	25 turned	cc
2	to	to	SCONJ	_	5 replied	mark
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 replied	nsubj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 replied	nsubj
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 turned	advcl
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 replied	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grieved	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 grieved	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 grieved	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 grieved	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 grieved	aux:pass
12	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 replied	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	15 company	mark
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 company	compound
15	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grieved	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 gentlemen	case
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gentlemen	amod
18	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gentlemen	amod
19	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 company	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 turned	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 turned	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 turned	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 turned	aux:pass
25	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 resolution	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 resolution	nmod:poss
28	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turned	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 account	case
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 account	det
31	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 resolution	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	this	that		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
2	grieve	should · passive		I		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	not turn	would · passive		I	my resolution on that account	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from resolution=Trajectory
4	resolve		my		that account	nom resolution «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place

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: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (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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