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title: When our father died, worn out by age, he only left seven hundred si… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 33

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:20:33
# text = 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.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	drachmas	drachma	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
21	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	compound	_	_
27	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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.

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**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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