The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 6
It cannot compare with the great city mansions, much less, of course, with the smallest of the Sultan's palaces."
Who acts: life · What happens: not compare
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 compare | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 compare | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 compare | advmod |
| 4 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 mansions | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mansions | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mansions | amod |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mansions | compound |
| 9 | mansions | mansion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 compare | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 less | punct |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 less | advmod |
| 12 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 compare | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 course | punct |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 course | case |
| 15 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 compare | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 smallest | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 smallest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 smallest | det |
| 19 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 compare | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 palaces | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Sultan | det |
| 22 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 palaces | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Sultan | case |
| 24 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 smallest | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 compare | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 compare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not compare | can | life | with the great city mansions; of course; less property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with mansion=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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