The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 75

You would have made a far better Sultana than she."

Who acts: better Sultana · What happens: make · To what, where: You

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (better Sultana), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	aux
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Sultana	det
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 better	advmod
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 Sultana	amod
8	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl:agent
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 she	case
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Sultana	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would · perfect · passive	a better Sultana than wife	You					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product

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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