--- title: Like the rest of us, he inherited a hundred silver drachmas from our… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/87/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/) / 87 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:21:87 # text = 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. 1 Like like ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 inherited inherit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 11 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 drachmas drachma NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 26 through through ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 33 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 driven drive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 beg beg VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/88/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/)