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title: For fear of wearying you I pass over in silence many other wonderful… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: For fear of wearying you I pass over in silence many other wonderful things which we saw in this island. Who acts: fear, I, we. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 61

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For fear of wearying you I pass over in silence many other wonderful things which we saw in this island.

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**Who acts:** fear, I, we · **What happens:** weary, pass over, see · **To what, where:** you, many other wonderful things, silence, island

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fear, I, we), 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:pg128:14:61
# text = For fear of wearying you I pass over in silence many other wonderful things which we saw in this island.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	wearying	weary	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weary** | gerund | fear *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 2 | **pass over** | present | I | many other wonderful things |  | silence |  | for fear; over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in silence=Destination |
| 3 | **see** | past | we | many other wonderful things |  | this island |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |

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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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