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title: He now found one of his most frequent visitors accusing him of treas… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He now found one of his most frequent visitors accusing him of treason, in hopes of sharing his confiscation; yet, unpatronized, and unsupported, he cleared himself by the openness of innocence, and the consistence of truth; he was dismissed with honour, and his accuser perished in prison. Who acts:
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 32

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He now found one of his most frequent visitors accusing him of treason, in hopes of sharing his confiscation; yet, unpatronized, and unsupported, he cleared himself by the openness of innocence, and the consistence of truth; he was dismissed with honour, and his accuser perished in prison.

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**Who acts:** officer, most frequent visitors, hopes, accuser · **What happens:** find, accuse, share, unpatroniz, clear, dismiss · **To what, where:** one, officer, hopes, confiscation, prison

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (officer, most frequent visitors, hopes, accuser), 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:pg62868:18:32
# text = He now found one of his most frequent visitors accusing him of treason, in hopes of sharing his confiscation; yet, unpatronized, and unsupported, he cleared himself by the openness of innocence, and the consistence of truth; he was dismissed with honour, and his accuser perished in prison.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
8	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	accusing	accuse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	treason	treason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	confiscation	confiscation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	unpatronized	unpatroniz	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	unsupported	unsupported	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	cleared	clear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	openness	openness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	innocence	innocence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	consistence	consistence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	accuser	accuser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | officer | one of officer's most frequent visitors |  |  | now | the consistence of truth *parataxis* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 2 | **accuse** | gerund | officer's most frequent visitors *not said here* | officer |  | hopes |  | of treason | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme of treason=Attribute |
| 3 | **share** | gerund | hopes *not said here* | officer's confiscation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **unpatroniz** | participle | officer *not said here* |  |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **clear** | past | officer | officer |  |  |  | by the openness of innocence | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Source |
| 6 | **dismiss** | past · passive |  | officer |  |  |  | with honour | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **perish** | participle | officer's accuser |  |  | prison |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **confiscate** |  | officer |  |  |  |  |  | nom confiscation «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «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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