The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 85
The bird having secured its prey flew off some yards and alighted on the ground, holding the talisman it its beak.
Who acts: bird · What happens: secure, fly off, alight, hold · To what, where: prey, yards, ground, talisman
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 secured | aux |
| 4 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bird | amod |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 prey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 secured | obj |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 flew | compound:prt |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 yards | det |
| 10 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flew | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 alighted | cc |
| 12 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 yards | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 alighted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 holding | punct |
| 17 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 flew | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 talisman | det |
| 19 | talisman | talisman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 holding | obj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 holding | obj |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 beak | nmod:poss |
| 22 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 holding | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | secure | gerund · perfect | bird's prey | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition prey=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly off | past | the bird | some yards | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yard=Theme | ||||
| 3 | alight | participle | the bird not said here | the ground | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hold | gerund | the bird not said here | the talisman | 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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