The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 21

This was the cause of my separation from my dear husband, and now, I am convinced, it will be the means of our reunion."

Who acts: This, I, separation, my · What happens: be, separate · To what, where: cause

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I, separation, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 cause	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cause	det
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 separation	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 separation	nmod:poss
7	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 husband	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 husband	amod
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 separation	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 convinced	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 convinced	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 convinced	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 convinced	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 convinced	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 convinced	cop
18	convinced	convinced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cause	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 means	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 means	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 means	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 means	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 means	nsubj
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 convinced	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 reunion	case
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 reunion	nmod:poss
27	reunion	reunion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 means	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cause	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 cause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	the cause		of my separation from my dear husband	tree rules
2	is	present	I		now	convinced property	tree rules
3	is	future	separation			of our reunion; mean property	tree rules
4	separate		my			from my dear husband	nom separation «state intransitive»: poss=agent from=obl

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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