The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 68

Hide nothing from us, I beseech you, unless you wish us to believe that the confidence we have always had in one another is now to cease."

Who acts: you, I, we, confidence · What happens: hide, beseech, wish, believe, have, be · To what, where: nothing, you, us, confidence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, we, confidence), 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	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Hide	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 us	case
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Hide	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 beseech	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 beseech	nsubj
7	beseech	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	parataxis
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 beseech	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wish	punct
10	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	12 wish	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 wish	nsubj
12	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	parataxis
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 wish	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 believe	mark
15	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wish	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 confidence	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 confidence	det
18	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cease	nsubj
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 had	aux
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 had	advmod
22	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 confidence	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 one	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 had	parataxis
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	24 one	fixed
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 cease	cop
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 cease	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 cease	mark
29	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 believe	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hide	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Hide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	nothing			from us	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient from we=Beneficiary
2	beseech	present	I	you				tree rules
3	wish a condition, not said to happen	present	you		us			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot we=Theme
4	believe	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	have	present · perfect	we	the confidence not said here			always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient
6	is	present	the confidence			now	cease property	tree rules

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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