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title: "Heaven forbid," said Scheih Ibrahim, "that I should come in contact… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Heaven forbid," said Scheih Ibrahim, "that I should come in contact with wine! Who acts: Heaven, Scheih Ibrahim, that. 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 71

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"Heaven forbid," said Scheih Ibrahim, "that I should come in contact with wine!

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**Who acts:** Heaven, Scheih Ibrahim, that · **What happens:** forbid, say, come · **To what, where:** contact · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Heaven, Scheih Ibrahim, that), 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:pg128:29:71
# text = "Heaven forbid," said Scheih Ibrahim, "that I should come in contact with wine!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forbid	forbid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbid** *in a quote* | infinitive | Heaven |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Scheih Ibrahim |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | should | that |  |  | contact with wine |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in contact=Location |

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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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