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title: On the return of Scheih Ibrahim they begged him to open it, and to a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: On the return of Scheih Ibrahim they begged him to open it, and to allow them to enter and admire the magnificence within. Who acts: pieces, Scheih. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 65

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On the return of Scheih Ibrahim they begged him to open it, and to allow them to enter and admire the magnificence within.

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**Who acts:** pieces, Scheih · **What happens:** beg, open, allow, enter, admire, return · **To what, where:** Ibrahim, return, pieces, magnificence

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces, Scheih), 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:pg128:29:65
# text = On the return of Scheih Ibrahim they begged him to open it, and to allow them to enter and admire the magnificence within.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	admire	admire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	within	within	ADP	IN	_	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | pieces *= piece* |  | Ibrahim | the return of Scheih |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **open** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | pieces *= piece* *not said here* | return |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 3 | **allow** | to-infinitive | pieces *= piece* *not said here* |  | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **enter** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | pieces *= piece* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **admire** | infinitive | pieces *= piece* *not said here* | the magnificence |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer magnificence=Stimulus |
| 6 | **return** |  | Scheih |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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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