The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 82

Next day the prince returned to Perie Banou, to whom he related his father’s new demand, “which,” he said, “I look on to be a thing more difficult than the two first, for I cannot imagine there is or can be such a man in the world.

Who acts: prince, I, father · What happens: return, relate, say, look on, be, not imagine · To what, where: Perie, new demand, thing, man, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, I, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	nsubj
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Perie	case
7	Perie	Perie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 returned	obl
8	Banou	Banou	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Perie	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 related	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 whom	case
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 related	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 related	nsubj
13	related	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 returned	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 demand	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 father	case
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 demand	amod
18	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 related	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 said	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 which	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 which	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 related	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 look	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 look	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 look	nsubj
29	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 said	ccomp
30	on	on	ADP	_	29 look	compound:prt
31	to	to	PART	_	34 thing	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 thing	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 thing	det
34	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 look	parataxis
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 difficult	advmod
36	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 thing	amod
37	than	than	ADP	_	39 two	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 two	det
39	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 difficult	obl
40	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 look	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 imagine	punct
42	for	for	SCONJ	_	46 imagine	mark
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 imagine	nsubj
44	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 imagine	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 imagine	advmod
46	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 look	conj
47	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	48 is	expl
48	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 imagine	ccomp
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 man	cc
50	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 man	aux
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 man	cop
52	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	54 man	det:predet
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 man	det
54	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 is	conj
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 world	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 world	det
57	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 man	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the prince		Perie		day		vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to perie=Result
2	relate	past	prince	prince's father's new demand				whom obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent demand=Topic to whom=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past						which nsubj; prince nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look on in a quote	present	I					first property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		a thing					tree rules
6	not imagine in a quote	can	I						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	be in a quote	present	I not said here			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is a in a quote	can	I not said here	such man		the world			tree rules
9	demand		prince's father						nom demand «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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 82