The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 41
By this means I shall in course of time make four thousand drachmas, which will easily double themselves.
Who acts: this, thousand drachmas · What happens: mean, make, double · To what, where: thousand drachmas, drachmas · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (this, thousand 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 means | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 shall | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 course | case |
| 7 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shall | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 course | nmod |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 11 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 thousand | compound |
| 12 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 drachmas | nummod |
| 13 | drachmas | drachma | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 double | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 double | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 double | aux |
| 17 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 18 double | advmod |
| 18 | double | double | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 drachmas | conj |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 double | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | present | thousand drachmas | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset drachma=Product | |||||
| 3 | double | future | thousand drachmas | drachmas = drachma | easily property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=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: «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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