🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 1

Almet, the dervise, who watched the sacred lamp in the sepulchre of the Prophet, as he one day rose up from the devotions of the morning, which he had performed at the gate of the temple, with his body turned towards the east, and his forehead on the earth, saw before him a man in splendid apparel, attended by a long retinue, who gazed stedfastly at him, with a look of mournful complacence, and seemed desirous to speak, but unwilling to offend.

Who acts: dervise, Almet, body, long retinue · What happens: watch, rise up, perform, turn, see, attend · To what, where: sacred lamp, sepulchre, devotions, gate, east, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almet.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dervise, Almet, body, long retinue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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