The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 80

"Oh, perhaps after all you may never come back; one never can tell what accidents may happen.

Who acts: you, one · What happens: not come back, not tell, happen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 come	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 perhaps	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 come	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 tell	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 tell	advmod
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	conj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 happen	nsubj
18	accidents	accident	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 happen	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 happen	aux
20	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not come back in a quote	may	you	perhaps property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	one		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen in a quote	may			vn occur-48.3-1 «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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