The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 22

If it fails, we must quickly take to our rafts; frail as they are, we have more chance of saving our lives with them than we have if we remain here."

Who acts: plot, we, rafts, more chance · What happens: fail, take, be, have, save, remain · To what, where: more chance, lives

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, rafts, more chance), 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	_	3 fails	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fails	nsubj
3	fails	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 take	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fails	punct
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 take	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	8 take	advmod
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 rafts	case
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 rafts	nmod:poss
11	rafts	raft	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 take	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 frail	punct
13	frail	frail	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 take	parataxis
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 are	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 are	nsubj
16	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 frail	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 take	conj
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 chance	amod
21	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 saving	mark
23	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 chance	acl
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 lives	nmod:poss
25	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 saving	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saving	obl
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	30 have	mark
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
30	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 saving	advcl
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 remain	mark
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 remain	nsubj
33	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 have	ccomp
34	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 remain	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fail a condition, not said to happen	present	plot				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	must	we			to our rafts result; quickly property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to raft=Result
3	does	present	rafts = raft				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	we	more chance			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
5	save	gerund	more chance not said here	our lives		with rafts = raft	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
6	have	present	we				tree rules
7	remain a condition, not said to happen	present	we		here		vn exist-47.1 «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.

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