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title: What added to the confusion in his affairs was that he refused to lo… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 88

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg128:28:88
# text = 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.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	steward	steward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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