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title: Do you not consider the harm you may be doing yourself, and fear tha… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 68

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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?"

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

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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 (you, fear, your), 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:pg128:28:68
# text = 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?"
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	malicious	maliciou	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	estrangement	estrangement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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