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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 27

The Angel, while he was speaking thus, stretched out his pinions to fly back to the Empyreum; and the flutter of his wings was like the rushing of a cataract.

Who acts: Angel, flutter, wings · What happens: speak, stretch out, fly back, rush, flutter · To what, where: pinions · Speech: someone speaks here

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

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

detnsubjpunctmarknsubjauxadvmodpunctconjcompound:prtnmod:possobjmarkadvcladvmodcasedetoblpunctccdetnsubjcasenmod:possnmodauxmarkdetconjcasedetoblpunctrootTheDETAngelPROPN,PUNCTwhileSCONJhePRONwasAUXspeakingVERBthusADV,PUNCTstretchedVERBoutADPhisPRONpinionsNOUNtoPARTflyVERBbackADVtoADPtheDETEmpyreumPROPN;PUNCTandCCONJtheDETflutterNOUNofADPhisPRONwingsNOUNwasAUXlikeSCONJtheDETrushingVERBofADPaDETcataractNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Angeldet
2AngelAngelPROPNNumber=Sing7 speakingnsubj
3,,PUNCT_7 speakingpunct
4whilewhileSCONJ_7 speakingmark
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 speakingnsubj
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 speakingaux
7speakingspeakVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
8thusthusADV_7 speakingadvmod
9,,PUNCT_10 stretchedpunct
10stretchedstretchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part7 speakingconj
11outoutADP_10 stretchedcompound:prt
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 pinionsnmod:poss
13pinionspinionNOUNNumber=Plur10 stretchedobj
14totoPART_15 flymark
15flyflyVERBVerbForm=Inf10 stretchedadvcl
16backbackADV_15 flyadvmod
17totoADP_19 Empyreumcase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 Empyreumdet
19EmpyreumEmpyreumPROPNNumber=Sing15 flyobl
20;;PUNCT_30 rushingpunct
21andandCCONJ_30 rushingcc
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 flutterdet
23flutterflutterNOUNNumber=Sing30 rushingnsubj
24ofofADP_26 wingscase
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 wingsnmod:poss
26wingswingNOUNNumber=Plur23 flutternmod
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 rushingaux
28likelikeSCONJ_30 rushingmark
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 rushingdet
30rushingrushVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 speakingconj
31ofofADP_33 cataractcase
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 cataractdet
33cataractcataractNOUNNumber=Sing30 rushingobl
34..PUNCT_7 speakingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1speak speech: otherpast · progressivethe Angelangel nsubj; thus propertyvn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2stretch outparticiplethe Angel not said hereangel's pinionsvn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pinion=Patient
3fly backto-infinitivethe Angel not said hereto the Empyreum resultvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to empyreum=Result
4rushpast · progressivethe flutter of angel's wingsof a cataractvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of cataract=Trajectory
5flutterangel's wingsnom flutter «act intransitive»: of=agent

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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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