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title: If our plot succeeds, we can wait patiently for the chance of some p… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: If our plot succeeds, we can wait patiently for the chance of some passing ship which would rescue us from this fatal island. Who acts: plot, we, passing ship, our. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 21

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If our plot succeeds, we can wait patiently for the chance of some passing ship which would rescue us from this fatal island.

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**Who acts:** plot, we, passing ship, our · **What happens:** succeed, wait, pass, rescue, plot, chance · **To what, where:** us, fatal island

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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, passing ship, our), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:15:21
# text = If our plot succeeds, we can wait patiently for the chance of some passing ship which would rescue us from this fatal island.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	succeeds	succeed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	rescue	rescue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | our plot |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wait** | can | we |  |  |  |  | for the chance of some passing ship; patiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rescue** | would | some passing ship | us |  | this fatal island |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent we=Theme from island=Source |
| 5 | **plot** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom plot «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **chance** |  | some passing ship |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**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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