The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 26
Nothing can equal the magnificence of his palace.
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: equal · To what, where: magnificence
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 equal | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 equal | aux |
| 3 | equal | equal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 magnificence | det |
| 5 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 equal | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 palace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 magnificence | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 equal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | equal | can | Nothing | the magnificence of Commander's palace | tree rules |
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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