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title: Hide nothing from us, I beseech you, unless you wish us to believe t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 68

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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."

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**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

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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.

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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:pg128:41:68
# text = 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."
1	Hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	beseech	beseech	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	parataxis	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	fixed	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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