The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 68

Do you not consider the harm you may be doing yourself, and fear that malicious people, seeking the cause of your estrangement, may guess the real one?"

Who acts: you, fear, your · What happens: not consider, do, maliciou, seek, guess, cause · To what, where: harm, yourself, people, cause, real one, estrangement

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 (you, fear, your), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 consider	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 consider	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 consider	advmod
4	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 harm	det
6	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consider	obj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 doing	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 doing	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 doing	aux
10	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 harm	acl:relcl
11	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 doing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fear	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fear	cc
14	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 doing	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 malicious	nsubj
16	malicious	maliciou	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fear	acl:relcl
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 malicious	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seeking	punct
19	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 doing	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cause	det
21	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seeking	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 estrangement	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 estrangement	nmod:poss
24	estrangement	estrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cause	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 guess	punct
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 guess	aux
27	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 consider	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 one	det
29	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 one	amod
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 guess	obj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 guess	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 guess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not consider	present · do-support	you	the harm		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent harm=Attribute
2	do	may · progressive	you	yourself	fear obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Eventuality
3	maliciou	present	fear	people		tree rules
4	seek	gerund	you not said here	the cause of your estrangement		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
5	guess	may	you not said here	the real one		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
6	cause			your estrangement		nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
7	estrange		your			nom estrangement «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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