The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 25
Certainly there is no one in the Court of Bengal who can be compared with him."
Who acts: one · What happens: be, compare · To what, where: Court
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 3 is | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Court | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Court | det |
| 8 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Bengal | case |
| 10 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Court | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 compared | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 compared | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 compared | aux:pass |
| 14 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Court | acl:relcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 compared | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no one in the Court of Bengal | there | certainly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | compare | can · passive | the Court of Bengal | with Bengal | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with he=Co-Patient |
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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