--- title: "Excuse me, my lord," replied Schacabac, imitating his gestures as b… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:22:1 # text = "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." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Excuse excuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 9 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 Schacabac Schacabac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 imitating imitate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 gestures gesture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 before before ADV RB _ 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 really really ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 24 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 29 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 justice justice NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 repast repast NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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. - ← previous: [Opening, part 21, 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/110/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/2/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/)