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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 6

"Sir," replied the merchant, "I should esteem it an honour to present her to his Majesty, did it become a merchant to do such a thing.

Who acts: Sir, slave · What happens: reply, esteem, present, become, do · To what, where: merchant, slave, price, Majesty, thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, slave), 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

punctnsubjpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctnsubjauxconjobjdetobjmarkadvclobjcasenmod:possoblpunctauxnsubjadvcldetxcompmarkacldet:predetdetobjpunctroot"PUNCTSirPROPN,PUNCT"PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETmerchantNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTIPRONshouldAUXesteemVERBitPRONanDEThonourNOUNtoPARTpresentVERBherPRONtoADPhisPRONMajestyPROPN,PUNCTdidAUXitPRONbecomeVERBaDETmerchantNOUNtoPARTdoVERBsuchDETaDETthingNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Sirpunct
2SirSirPROPNNumber=Sing5 repliednsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 Sirpunct
4""PUNCT_2 Sirpunct
5repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 merchantdet
7merchantmerchantNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliedobj
8,,PUNCT_12 esteempunct
9""PUNCT_12 esteempunct
10IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs12 esteemnsubj
11shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin12 esteemaux
12esteemesteemVERBVerbForm=Inf5 repliedconj
13ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 esteemobj
14anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 honourdet
15honourhonourNOUNNumber=Sing12 esteemobj
16totoPART_17 presentmark
17presentpresentVERBVerbForm=Inf12 esteemadvcl
18hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 presentobj
19totoADP_21 Majestycase
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 Majestynmod:poss
21MajestyMajestyPROPNNumber=Sing17 presentobl
22,,PUNCT_25 becomepunct
23diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 becomeaux
24ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 becomensubj
25becomebecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf5 repliedadvcl
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 merchantdet
27merchantmerchantNOUNNumber=Sing25 becomexcomp
28totoPART_29 domark
29dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf27 merchantacl
30suchsuchDETPronType=Ind32 thingdet:predet
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 thingdet
32thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing29 doobj
33..PUNCT_5 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastSirthe merchantvn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent merchant=Topic
2esteem in a quoteshouldSirslavevn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme honour=Attribute
3present in a quoteto-infinitiveSir not said herepriceSir's Majestyvn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to majesty=Recipient
4become in a quotepast · do-supportslavea merchantvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5do in a quoteto-infinitiveslave not said heresuch thingvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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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