The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 95

Next morning Camaralzaman woke up before the bird left its perch, and no sooner did it take flight than he followed it again with as little success as the previous day, only stopping to eat some herbs and fruit he found by the way.

Who acts: bird, strength · What happens: wake up, leave, take, follow, stop, eat · To what, where: perch, bird, flight, herbs, fruit

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, strength), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woke	obl
3	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 morning	appos
4	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 woke	compound:prt
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 left	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	nsubj
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 woke	advcl
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 perch	nmod:poss
11	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 take	cc
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 sooner	det
15	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 take	advmod
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 take	expl
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 woke	parataxis
19	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
20	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 followed	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 followed	nsubj
22	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 take	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 followed	obj
24	again	again	ADV	_	18 take	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 success	case
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 success	case
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 success	amod
28	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obl
29	as	as	ADP	_	32 day	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 day	det
31	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 day	amod
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 stopping	punct
34	only	only	ADV	_	35 stopping	advmod
35	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 take	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 eat	mark
37	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 stopping	xcomp
38	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	39 herbs	det
39	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 eat	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 fruit	cc
41	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 herbs	conj
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 found	nsubj
43	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 fruit	acl:relcl
44	by	by	ADP	_	46 way	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 way	det
46	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 found	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past			morning		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	leave	past	the bird	bird's perch			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perch=Theme
3	take	past · do-support		bird	again; day	with little success; soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme
4	follow	past	strength	flight			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	stop	gerund					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	eat	to-infinitive		some herbs and fruit			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Patient
7	find	past	strength	fruit not said here		by the way	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Topic

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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