The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 96

In this fashion he spent ten days, following the bird all day and spending the night at the foot of a tree, whilst it roosted on the topmost bough.

Who acts: strength · What happens: spend, follow, roost · To what, where: fashion, bird, foot, topmost bough

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 (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	In	in	ADP	_	3 fashion	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 fashion	det
3	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spent	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spent	nsubj
5	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spent	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 following	punct
9	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 spent	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 following	obj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 following	obl:unmarked
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 spending	cc
15	spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 following	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spending	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 foot	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 foot	det
20	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spending	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 tree	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tree	det
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 foot	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 roosted	punct
25	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	27 roosted	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 roosted	nsubj:pass
27	roosted	roost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 spent	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 bough	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bough	det
30	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bough	amod
31	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 roosted	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	spend	past	strength		this fashion	day	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	follow	gerund	strength not said here	the bird		day	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
3	spend	gerund	strength not said here		the foot of a tree	night	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	roost	participle · passive		bird	the topmost bough		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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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