The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 71

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

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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 forbid	punct
2	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 forbid	nsubj
3	forbid	forbid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 forbid	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 forbid	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ibrahim	compound
8	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 come	nsubj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 contact	case
16	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 wine	case
18	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 contact	nmod
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	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

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.

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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