--- title: I had inherited from them a small fortune, which I worked hard night… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: I had inherited from them a small fortune, which I worked hard night and day to increase, till at last I found myself the owner of eighty camels. Who acts: I, small fortune. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/31/) [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 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/) / 31 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 31 I had inherited from them a small fortune, which I worked hard night and day to increase, till at last I found myself the owner of eighty camels. **Who acts:** I, small fortune · **What happens:** inherit, work, increase, find · **To what, where:** small fortune, myself This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, small 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:pg128:33:31 # text = I had inherited from them a small fortune, which I worked hard night and day to increase, till at last I found myself the owner of eighty camels. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 inherited inherit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 worked work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 increase increase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 till till ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 eighty eighty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 camels camel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **inherit** | past · perfect | I | a small fortune | | | | from parents *= parent* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme from they=Source | | 2 | **work** | past | a small fortune | | | | night | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **increase** | to-infinitive | a small fortune *not said here* | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **find** | past | I | myself | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent myself=Theme owner=Attribute | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/32/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/)