The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 1

"Excuse me, my lord," replied Schacabac, imitating his gestures as before, "I really am not losing time, and I do full justice to the repast."

Who acts: Schacabac · What happens: excuse, reply, imitate, not lose, do, gesture · To what, where: Schacabac, gestures, full justice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schacabac), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Excuse	punct
2	Excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 replied	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Excuse	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lord	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lord	nmod:poss
6	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Excuse	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Excuse	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Excuse	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Schacabac	Schacabac	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 replied	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 imitating	punct
12	imitating	imitate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 replied	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 gestures	nmod:poss
14	gestures	gesture	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 imitating	obj
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 before	case
16	before	before	ADV	_	12 imitating	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 losing	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 losing	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 losing	nsubj
20	really	really	ADV	_	23 losing	advmod
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 losing	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 losing	advmod
23	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 imitating	conj
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 losing	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 do	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 do	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
28	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	advcl
29	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 justice	amod
30	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 repast	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 repast	det
33	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	excuse in a quote	infinitive		Schacabac		my lord obl	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past	Schacabac				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	imitate	gerund	Schacabac not said here	Schacabac's gestures			vn patent-101 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent gesture=Theme as before=Result
4	not lose in a quote	present · progressive	Schacabac		time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do in a quote	present	Schacabac	full justice		to the repast	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Eventuality
6	gesture		Schacabac				nom gesture «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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