--- title: "Sir," replied the merchant, "I should esteem it an honour to presen… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "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. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/) / 6 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:28:6 # text = "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. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 esteem esteem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 present present VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 Majesty Majesty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 xcomp _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 32 det:predet _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Sir | the merchant | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent merchant=Topic | | 2 | **esteem** *in a quote* | should | Sir | slave | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme honour=Attribute | | 3 | **present** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Sir *not said here* | price | Sir's Majesty | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to majesty=Recipient | | 4 | **become** *in a quote* | past · do-support | slave | a merchant | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | slave *not said here* | such thing | | | | | vn 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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/7/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/)