Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 34

We approach them with scruple and hesitation; we enter them, but enter timorous and trembling, and always hope to pass through them without losing the road of virtue, which we, for awhile, keep in our sight, and to which we propose to return.

Who acts: We, our · What happens: approach, enter, tremble, hope, pass, lose · To what, where: eyes, road, sight

This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Obidah.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, our), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 approach	nsubj
2	approach	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 approach	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 scruple	case
5	scruple	scruple	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 approach	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hesitation	cc
7	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scruple	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 enter	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 enter	nsubj
10	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 approach	parataxis
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 enter	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 enter	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 enter	cc
14	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 enter	conj
15	timorous	timorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 enter	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 trembling	cc
17	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 timorous	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hope	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hope	cc
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 hope	advmod
21	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 approach	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 pass	mark
23	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hope	xcomp
24	through	through	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pass	obl
26	without	without	SCONJ	_	27 losing	mark
27	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 pass	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 road	det
29	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 losing	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 virtue	case
31	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 road	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 we	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 we	nsubj
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 virtue	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 we	punct
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 awhile	case
37	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	34 we	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 keep	punct
39	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 pass	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 sight	case
41	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 sight	nmod:poss
42	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 keep	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 propose	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 propose	cc
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 which	case
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 propose	obl
47	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 propose	nsubj
48	propose	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hope	conj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 return	mark
50	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 propose	ccomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 approach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	present	We	eyes = eye		with scruple and hesitation	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Theme with scruple=Instrument
2	enter	present	we	eyes = eye			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination
3	enter	present	we not said here			timorous property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tremble	gerund	we not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hope	present				always property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	pass not said to happen	to-infinitive				through eyes = eye	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through they=Location
7	lose	gerund		the road of virtue we			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Eventuality
8	keep	infinitive			our sight		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sight=Location
9	propose	present	we			which obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to which=Recipient clause=Topic
10	return	to-infinitive	we not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	sight		our				nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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: «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 Obidah., sentence 34

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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 34