--- title: Camaralzaman stood still and looked up, and saw that the birds were… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Camaralzaman stood still and looked up, and saw that the birds were fighting so savagely with beaks and claws that before long one fell dead to the ground, whilst the conqueror spread his wings and flew away. Who acts: Camaralzaman, birds, beaks, conqueror. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/44/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/) / 44 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 44 Camaralzaman stood still and looked up, and saw that the birds were fighting so savagely with beaks and claws that before long one fell dead to the ground, whilst the conqueror spread his wings and flew away. **Who acts:** Camaralzaman, birds, beaks, conqueror · **What happens:** stand, look up, see, fight, fall, spread · **To what, where:** wings · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Camaralzaman, birds, beaks, conqueror), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:26:44 # text = Camaralzaman stood still and looked up, and saw that the birds were fighting so savagely with beaks and claws that before long one fell dead to the ground, whilst the conqueror spread his wings and flew away. 1 Camaralzaman Camaralzaman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 still still ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 savagely savagely ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 22 before before SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 26 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 whilst whilst SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 conqueror conqueror NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 39 away away ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | Camaralzaman | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **look up** | past | Camaralzaman *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **see** | past | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **fight** | past · progressive | the birds | | | | | with beaks and claws; savagely *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with beak=Co-Agent | | 5 | **fall** | past | beaks and claws | | | | | to the ground; dead *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | | 6 | **spread** | past | the conqueror | conqueror's wings | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | | 7 | **fly away** | past | beaks and claws *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/45/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/)