The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 33

When our father died, worn out by age, he only left seven hundred silver drachmas to be divided amongst us, which made one hundred for each son.

Who acts: father, hundred silver drachmas · What happens: die, wear out, leave, divide, make · To what, where: hundred silver drachmas, one hundred

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, hundred silver drachmas), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 died	mark
2	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 left	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct
6	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 died	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 worn	compound:prt
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 age	case
9	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worn	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	nsubj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 left	advmod
13	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hundred	compound
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 drachmas	nummod
16	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drachmas	compound
17	drachmas	drachma	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 left	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	20 divided	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 divided	aux:pass
20	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 drachmas	acl
21	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 divided	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 made	nsubj
25	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 drachmas	conj
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 hundred	compound
27	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 made	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 son	case
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 son	det
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	our father				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	wear out	participle	our father not said here		by age		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	leave	past	father	hundred silver drachmas			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drachma=Theme
4	divide	to-infinitive · passive	father not said here	hundred silver drachmas not said here		amongst us	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»
5	make	past	hundred silver drachmas	one hundred		for each son	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent hundred=Product for son=Beneficiary

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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