Syntactic function VPt[0]+N
transitive verb phrase with contextually determinate obligatorily omitted subject
This category raises a host of problems. The subject who does the comparing can definitely never be explicit. 諸 stands for something like 之於 and would appear to make this into a VPt0+prep+N, although one suspects a more appropriate way of analysing the idiom could be to take 譬 as vtt0+N1.+prep+N2 and to refuse to treat this as a compound at all. But for lexicographic purposes we do want to record this compound as an important idiom one has to learn.
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