The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 29

A company of women without men is, however, as dull as a company of men without women."

Who acts: company · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 company	det
2	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dull	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 women	case
4	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 company	nmod
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 men	case
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 women	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dull	cop
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 is	punct
9	however	however	ADV	_	12 dull	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 however	punct
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 dull	case
12	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 company	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 company	det
15	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dull	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 men	case
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 company	nmod
18	without	without	ADP	_	19 women	case
19	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 men	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 dull	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 dull	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a company of women without men					as a company of men without women; dull, however property	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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