The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 59

The rhinoceros fights with the elephant, and transfixing him with his horn carries him off upon his head, but becoming blinded with the blood of his enemy, he falls helpless to the ground, and then comes the roc, and clutches them both up in his talons and takes them to feed his young.

Who acts: rhinoceros, transfixing, elephant · What happens: fight, transfix, carry off, blind, fall, come · To what, where: elephant, roc, lines, talons, young

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 (rhinoceros, transfixing, elephant), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rhinoceros	det
2	rhinoceros	rhinoceros	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fights	nsubj
3	fights	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 elephant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elephant	det
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fights	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carries	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 carries	cc
9	transfixing	transfix	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 carries	csubj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 transfixing	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 horn	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 horn	nmod:poss
13	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 transfixing	obl
14	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fights	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carries	obj
16	off	off	ADP	_	14 carries	compound:prt
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 head	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carries	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 blinded	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 blinded	cc
22	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 blinded	aux:pass
23	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 carries	parataxis
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 blood	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 blood	det
26	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blinded	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 enemy	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 enemy	nmod:poss
29	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 blood	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 falls	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 falls	nsubj
32	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fights	conj
33	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 falls	xcomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 ground	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ground	det
36	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 falls	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 comes	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 comes	cc
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 comes	advmod
40	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fights	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 roc	det
42	roc	roc	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 comes	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 clutches	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 clutches	cc
45	clutches	clutch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fights	parataxis
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 clutches	obj
47	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	45 clutches	obj
48	up	up	ADP	_	45 clutches	compound:prt
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 talons	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 talons	nmod:poss
51	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 clutches	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 takes	cc
53	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 clutches	conj
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 takes	obj
55	to	to	PART	_	56 feed	mark
56	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 takes	advcl
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 young	nmod:poss
58	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 feed	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fights	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	present	the rhinoceros				with the elephant	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with elephant=Co-Agent
2	transfix	gerund		elephant			with elephant's horn	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	carry off	present	transfixing	elephant			upon elephant's head	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	blind	gerund · passive					with the blood of elephant's enemy	tree rules
5	fall	present	elephant				to the ground; helpless property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
6	come	present	the rhinoceros not said here	the roc		then		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roc=Theme
7	clutch up	present		lines = line	elephant's talons			tree rules
8	take	present		lines = line				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
9	feed	to-infinitive		elephant's young				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=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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