The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 80
But we must hope that he will perceive and turn a second screw, which will have the effect of bringing the horse back to earth."
Who acts: we, rapidity, second screw, effect · What happens: hope, perceive, turn, have, bring · To what, where: second screw, effect, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, rapidity, second screw, effect), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 hope | cc |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hope | aux |
| 4 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 perceive | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 perceive | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 perceive | aux |
| 8 | perceive | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hope | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turn | cc |
| 10 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 perceive | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 screw | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 screw | amod |
| 13 | screw | screw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turn | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 have | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | aux |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 screw | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 effect | det |
| 19 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 bringing | mark |
| 21 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 effect | acl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 horse | det |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bringing | obj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 bringing | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 earth | case |
| 26 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 back | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hope | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | must | we | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | perceive | future | rapidity | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | turn | infinitive | rapidity not said here | a second screw | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent screw=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | future | a second screw | the effect | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bring | gerund | the effect not said here | the horse | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination |
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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