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title: Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life; presses for… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymou
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 5

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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.

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:16:5
# text = 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.
1	Hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	calculates	calculate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	schemes	scheme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	durable	durable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	presses	press	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bliss	bliss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	grasps	grasp	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	impossibilities	impossibility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	consequently	consequently	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	often	often	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	insnares	insnare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	beggary	beggary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	dishonour	dishonour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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:** «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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