The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 39

These, falling with so much force upon the diamonds, were sure to take up some of the precious stones with them, when the eagles pounced upon the meat and carried it off to their nests to feed their hungry broods.

Who acts: eagles · What happens: fall, be, take up, pounce, carry off, feed · To what, where: some, meat, nests, hungry broods

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagles), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 falling	det
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 falling	punct
3	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 force	case
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 force	amod
7	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falling	obl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 diamonds	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 diamonds	det
10	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 force	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sure	punct
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sure	cop
13	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 falling	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sure	xcomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 take	compound:prt
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 take	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 stones	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stones	det
20	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stones	amod
21	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 some	nmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stones	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pounced	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 pounced	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 eagles	det
27	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pounced	nsubj
28	pounced	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 take	conj
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 meat	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 meat	det
31	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pounced	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 carried	cc
33	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 pounced	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 carried	obj
35	off	off	ADP	_	33 carried	compound:prt
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 nests	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 nests	nmod:poss
38	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 carried	obl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 feed	mark
40	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 carried	advcl
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 broods	nmod:poss
42	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 broods	amod
43	broods	brood	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 feed	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 falling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund				with much force upon the diamonds	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past				sure property	tree rules
3	take up	to-infinitive		some			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
4	pounce	past	the eagles		the meat		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon meat=Trajectory
5	carry off	past	the eagles not said here	meat	eagles's nests		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to nest=Destination
6	feed	to-infinitive	the eagles not said here	eagles's hungry broods			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brood=Recipient

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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