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title: But to this I replied that, though I should be grieved to part compa… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 31

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:12:31
# text = 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.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
2	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	resolution	resolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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.

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**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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