Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 9
When his father died, he left him to the value of an hundred drachmas in Persian money.
Who acts: father · What happens: die, leave, value · To what, where: Alnaschar, value, hundred drachmas
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 (father), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 died | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 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 | 7 left | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 left | nsubj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 left | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 value | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 value | det |
| 11 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 drachmas | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 drachmas | det |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 drachmas | nummod |
| 15 | drachmas | drachma | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 value | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 money | case |
| 17 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 money | amod |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drachmas | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Alnaschar's father | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | father | Alnaschar | the value of a hundred drachmas in Persian money | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to value=Recipient | |||
| 3 | value | a hundred drachmas in Persian money | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=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: «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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