The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 70
I replied that this had been one of the pastimes of my youth, and that doubtless with practice my skill would come back to me.
Who acts: I, this, skill · What happens: reply, be, come back · To what, where: one, me
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, this, skill), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 one | mark |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 one | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 one | cop |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 replied | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pastimes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pastimes | det |
| 10 | pastimes | pastime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 youth | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 youth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pastimes | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 doubtless | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 doubtless | cc |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 doubtless | nsubj |
| 17 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 practice | case |
| 19 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 skill | nmod:poss |
| 21 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 doubtless | parataxis |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 come | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | I | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | this | one | of the pastimes of my youth | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come back | would | my skill | me | with practice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location |
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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