The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 88

What added to the confusion in his affairs was that he refused to look into his accounts with his steward, sending him away every time he appeared with his book.

Who acts: vizir · What happens: add, be, not look, send away, appear, account · To what, where: affairs, vizir, time

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vizir), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 added	nsubj
2	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 confusion	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 confusion	det
5	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 added	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 affairs	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 affairs	nmod:poss
8	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 added	obl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 refused	cop
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 refused	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 refused	nsubj
12	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 added	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 look	mark
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 refused	xcomp
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 accounts	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 accounts	nmod:poss
17	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 look	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 steward	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 steward	nmod:poss
20	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 accounts	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sending	punct
22	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 look	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sending	obj
24	away	away	ADV	_	22 sending	advmod
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 time	det
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sending	obl:unmarked
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 appeared	nsubj
28	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 time	acl:relcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 book	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 book	nmod:poss
31	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 appeared	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past			vizir's affairs		to the confusion	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to confusion=Co-Patient
2	is	past	vizir				refuse property	tree rules
3	not look	to-infinitive	vizir not said here				into vizir's accounts with vizir's steward	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into account=Theme
4	send away	gerund	vizir not said here	vizir		time	away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	appear	past	vizir	every time not said here			with vizir's book	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
6	account		vizir				with vizir's steward	nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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.

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