The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 87
Like the rest of us, he inherited a hundred silver drachmas from our father, which he thought was a large fortune, but through ill-luck, he soon lost it all, and was driven to beg.
Who acts: Schacabac, large fortune · What happens: inherit, think, be, lose, drive, beg · To what, where: hundred silver drachmas, large fortune, story, ill luck
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schacabac, large fortune), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 rest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rest | det |
| 3 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inherited | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 rest | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rest | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 inherited | nsubj |
| 8 | inherited | inherit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hundred | det |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 drachmas | nummod |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drachmas | compound |
| 12 | drachmas | drachma | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 inherited | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 father | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drachmas | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fortune | advcl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fortune | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fortune | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fortune | amod |
| 23 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drachmas | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lost | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 lost | cc |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 luck | case |
| 27 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 luck | amod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 ill | punct |
| 29 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lost | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 luck | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 lost | nsubj |
| 32 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 lost | advmod |
| 33 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 inherited | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 lost | obj |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 it | det |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 driven | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 driven | cc |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 driven | aux:pass |
| 39 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 inherited | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 beg | mark |
| 41 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 driven | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 inherited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inherit | past | Schacabac | hundred silver drachmas | like the rest of us; from our father | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent drachma=Theme from father=Source | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | a large fortune | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | a large fortune | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lose | past | Schacabac | story | ill luck | soon property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||
| 5 | drive | past · passive | Schacabac not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result | |||||
| 6 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | Schacabac not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=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: «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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