Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 5

Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often insnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonour.

Who acts: Hope · What happens: calculate, grasp, insnare, scheme, point · To what, where: schemes, impossibilities, men, beggary, bliss

This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hope), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calculates	nsubj
2	calculates	calculate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 schemes	nmod:poss
4	schemes	scheme	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 calculates	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	10 life	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 life	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 life	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 durable	cc
9	durable	durable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 long	conj
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calculates	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 presses	punct
12	presses	press	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 calculates	obl
13	forward	forward	ADV	_	12 presses	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 points	case
15	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 points	amod
16	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 presses	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 bliss	case
18	bliss	bliss	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 points	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 grasps	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 grasps	cc
21	grasps	grasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 calculates	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 impossibilities	case
23	impossibilities	impossibility	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 grasps	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 insnares	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 insnares	cc
26	consequently	consequently	ADV	_	28 often	advmod
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 often	advmod
28	often	often	ADV	_	29 insnares	advmod
29	insnares	insnare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 calculates	parataxis
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 insnares	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	32 beggary	case
32	beggary	beggary	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 insnares	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ruin	punct
34	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 beggary	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 dishonour	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 dishonour	cc
37	dishonour	dishonour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 insnares	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 calculates	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	calculate	present	Hope	hope's schemes		for a long life; presses to imaginary points of bliss obl	tree rules
2	grasp	present	Hope not said here		impossibilities		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	insnare	present		men	beggary and ruin	dishonour conj; often property	tree rules
4	scheme		hope				nom scheme «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
5	point			bliss			nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 5

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Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 5