The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 68

"Sire," answered the Indian, to whom the proposal did not seem nearly so generous as it appeared to the king, "I am most grateful to your Highness for your princely offer, and beseech you not to be offended with me if I say that I can only deliver up my horse in exchange for the hand of the princess your daughter."

Who acts: Sire, proposal, it, your · What happens: answer, not seem, appear, be, beseech, not offend · To what, where: Indian, you, horse, exchange · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, proposal, it, your), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Indian	det
7	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seem	punct
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 whom	case
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 seem	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 proposal	det
12	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seem	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seem	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 seem	advmod
15	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	conj
16	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 generous	advmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 generous	advmod
18	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seem	xcomp
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 appeared	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 appeared	nsubj
21	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 generous	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 king	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 appeared	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 grateful	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 grateful	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 grateful	nsubj
28	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 grateful	cop
29	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	30 grateful	advmod
30	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 appeared	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 Highness	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 Highness	nmod:poss
33	Highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 grateful	obl
34	for	for	ADP	_	37 offer	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 offer	nmod:poss
36	princely	princely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 offer	amod
37	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Highness	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 beseech	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 beseech	cc
40	beseech	beseech	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 seem	conj
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 beseech	obj
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 offended	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	45 offended	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 offended	aux:pass
45	offended	offend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 beseech	advcl
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 me	case
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 offended	obl
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 say	mark
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 say	nsubj
50	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 offended	advcl
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 deliver	mark
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 deliver	nsubj
53	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 deliver	aux
54	only	only	ADV	_	55 deliver	advmod
55	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 say	ccomp
56	up	up	ADP	_	55 deliver	compound:prt
57	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 horse	nmod:poss
58	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 deliver	obj
59	in	in	ADP	_	60 exchange	case
60	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 deliver	obl
61	for	for	ADP	_	63 hand	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 hand	det
63	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 deliver	obl
64	of	of	ADP	_	66 princess	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 princess	det
66	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 hand	nmod
67	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 daughter	nmod:poss
68	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 princess	conj
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
70	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Sire	the Indian			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent indian=Eventuality
2	not seem	past · do-support	the proposal			generous property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	appear	past	it			to the king	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	Sire			to your Highness for your princely offer; grateful property	tree rules
5	beseech in a quote	infinitive	the proposal not said here	you			tree rules
6	not offend in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	the proposal not said here			with Sire	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
7	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Sire				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	deliver up in a quote	can	Sire	my horse	exchange	for the hand of the princess and your daughter	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
9	offer in a quote		your				nom offer «communication 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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