The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 16
I can imagine no better judgment."
Who acts: I · What happens: imagine · To what, where: better judgment
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | aux |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 better | advmod |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 judgment | amod |
| 6 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 imagine | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | can | I | better judgment | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot judgment=Theme |
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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