Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 15
These two hundred drachmas will in a very little while rise to four hundred, which of course will amount in time to four thousand.
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 drachmas | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | compound |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 drachmas | nummod |
| 4 | drachmas | drachma | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 little | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 little | aux |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 little | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 little | advmod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 rise | mark |
| 11 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 little | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 hundred | case |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hundred | compound |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 rise | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 amount | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 amount | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 amount | case |
| 18 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 amount | compound |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 amount | aux |
| 20 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rise | appos |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 amount | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 four | case |
| 24 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 time | nmod |
| 25 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 four | flat |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 little | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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