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title: These, falling with so much force upon the diamonds, were sure to ta… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: These, falling with so much force upon the diamonds, were sure to take up some of the precious stones with them, when the eagles pounced upon the meat and carried it off to their nests to feed their hungry broods. Who acts: eagles. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Op
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 39

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These, falling with so much force upon the diamonds, were sure to take up some of the precious stones with them, when the eagles pounced upon the meat and carried it off to their nests to feed their hungry broods.

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**Who acts:** eagles · **What happens:** fall, be, take up, pounce, carry off, feed · **To what, where:** some, meat, nests, hungry broods

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:14:39
# text = These, falling with so much force upon the diamonds, were sure to take up some of the precious stones with them, when the eagles pounced upon the meat and carried it off to their nests to feed their hungry broods.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	pounced	pounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	off	off	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	broods	brood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with much force upon the diamonds | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take up** | to-infinitive |  | some |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 4 | **pounce** | past | the eagles |  |  | the meat |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon meat=Trajectory |
| 5 | **carry off** | past | the eagles *not said here* | meat |  | eagles's nests |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to nest=Destination |
| 6 | **feed** | to-infinitive | the eagles *not said here* | eagles's hungry broods |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brood=Recipient |

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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.

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**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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