The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 21
If our plot succeeds, we can wait patiently for the chance of some passing ship which would rescue us from this fatal island.
Who acts: plot, we, passing ship, our · What happens: succeed, wait, pass, rescue, plot, chance · To what, where: us, fatal island
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plot, we, passing ship, our), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 succeeds | mark |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 plot | nmod:poss |
| 3 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 succeeds | nsubj |
| 4 | succeeds | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wait | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 succeeds | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 wait | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 wait | aux |
| 8 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 8 wait | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 chance | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chance | det |
| 12 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wait | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ship | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 ship | det |
| 15 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 ship | amod |
| 16 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chance | nmod |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 rescue | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 rescue | aux |
| 19 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ship | acl:relcl |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 rescue | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 island | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 island | det |
| 23 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 island | amod |
| 24 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rescue | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed a condition, not said to happen | present | our plot | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wait | can | we | for the chance of some passing ship; patiently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | rescue | would | some passing ship | us | this fatal island | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent we=Theme from island=Source | |||
| 5 | plot | our | nom plot «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | chance | some passing ship | nom chance «state 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: «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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