The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 46

They stood there some time sadly shaking their heads, and then dug up a grave with their claws in which they buried him.

Who acts: birds · What happens: stand, shake, dig up, bury · To what, where: heads, grave, conqueror, claws

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 (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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stood	advmod
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl:unmarked
6	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
7	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heads	nmod:poss
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shaking	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dug	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dug	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 dug	advmod
13	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 dug	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 grave	det
16	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dug	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 claws	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 claws	nmod:poss
19	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dug	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 buried	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 buried	nsubj
23	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 claws	acl:relcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 buried	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	birds = bird		there	time	sadly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shake	gerund	birds = bird not said here	birds's heads				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	dig up	participle	birds = bird not said here	a grave		then	with birds's claws	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent grave=Theme with claw=Instrument
4	bury	past	birds = bird	conqueror	birds's claws			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in which=Destination

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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