The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 45

Almost immediately two other larger birds, who had been watching the duel, flew up and alighted, one at the head and the other at the feet of the dead bird.

Who acts: two other larger birds · What happens: watch, fly up, alight · To what, where: duel

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 (two other larger birds), 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	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 immediately	advmod
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	6 birds	advmod
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 birds	nummod
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 birds	amod
5	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 birds	amod
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 watching	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 watching	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 watching	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 watching	aux
11	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 birds	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 duel	det
13	duel	duel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 watching	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 flew	punct
15	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 birds	parataxis
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 flew	compound:prt
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 alighted	cc
18	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 flew	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 birds	appos
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 head	det
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 one	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 other	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 other	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 one	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 feet	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 feet	det
29	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 one	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 bird	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bird	det
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bird	amod
33	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 feet	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 birds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	watch	past · perfect · progressive	two other larger birds	the duel	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duel=Theme
2	fly up	past			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	alight	participle			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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