The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 44

Camaralzaman stood still and looked up, and saw that the birds were fighting so savagely with beaks and claws that before long one fell dead to the ground, whilst the conqueror spread his wings and flew away.

Who acts: Camaralzaman, birds, beaks, conqueror · What happens: stand, look up, see, fight, fall, spread · To what, where: wings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Camaralzaman, birds, beaks, conqueror), 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	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 looked	cc
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 looked	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 fighting	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 birds	det
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fighting	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fighting	aux
14	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 saw	ccomp
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 savagely	advmod
16	savagely	savagely	ADV	_	14 fighting	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 beaks	case
18	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fighting	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 claws	cc
20	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 beaks	conj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 fell	nsubj
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 fell	mark
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 one	amod
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fell	nsubj
25	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 beaks	acl:relcl
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fell	xcomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 ground	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ground	det
29	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fell	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 spread	punct
31	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	34 spread	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 conqueror	det
33	conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 spread	nsubj
34	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fell	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 wings	nmod:poss
36	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 spread	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 flew	cc
38	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fell	conj
39	away	away	ADV	_	38 flew	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Camaralzaman		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look up	past	Camaralzaman not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	past					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	fight	past · progressive	the birds			with beaks and claws; savagely property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with beak=Co-Agent
5	fall	past	beaks and claws			to the ground; dead property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
6	spread	past	the conqueror	conqueror's wings			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
7	fly away	past	beaks and claws not said here			away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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