The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 54

I replied that I had been educated as a grammarian and a poet, but that my great gift was writing.

Who acts: I, great gift, my · What happens: reply, educate, write, gift · To what, where: I

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, great gift, 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	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 educated	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 educated	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 educated	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 educated	aux:pass
7	educated	educate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 replied	advcl
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 grammarian	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 grammarian	det
10	grammarian	grammarian	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 educated	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 poet	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 poet	det
13	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grammarian	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 writing	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 writing	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 writing	mark
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 gift	nmod:poss
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gift	amod
19	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 writing	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 writing	aux
21	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 replied	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	I			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	educate speech: other	past · perfect · passive		I	as a grammarian and a poet	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	write	past · progressive	my great gift			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	gift		my			nom gift «possession transitive»: 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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