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title: We have quite enough to please and interest us without troubling our… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: We have quite enough to please and interest us without troubling ourselves about that with which we have no concern." Who acts: We, interest. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 79

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We have quite enough to please and interest us without troubling ourselves about that with which we have no concern."

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**Who acts:** We, interest · **What happens:** have, please, trouble · **To what, where:** ourselves, concern

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, interest), 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:pg128:6:79
# text = We have quite enough to please and interest us without troubling ourselves about that with which we have no concern."
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
10	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	troubling	trouble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
12	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	concern	concern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | We |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **please** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **trouble** | gerund | interest  us *not said here* | ourselves |  |  |  | about interest  us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselves=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | present | we | no concern |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent concern=Patient |

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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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