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title: These two hundred drachmas will in a very little while rise to four… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: These two hundred drachmas will in a very little while rise to four hundred, which of course will amount in time to four thousand. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 15

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These two hundred drachmas will in a very little while rise to four hundred, which of course will amount in time to four thousand.

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:16:15
# text = These two hundred drachmas will in a very little while rise to four hundred, which of course will amount in time to four thousand.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	drachmas	drachma	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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