Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 18

Suleiman: «I gave that dinner to show what a great and rich king I was, and not because I really wanted to be kind to the animals.

Who acts: Suleiman, angel · What happens: give, show, not want, be · To what, where: dinner, great king

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Suleiman, angel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 dinner	det
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 show	mark
9	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gave	advcl
10	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	15 king	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 king	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 king	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rich	cc
14	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 great	conj
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 show	obj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 was	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 king	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wanted	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wanted	cc
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 wanted	advmod
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 wanted	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 wanted	nsubj
23	really	really	ADV	_	24 wanted	advmod
24	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 kind	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 kind	cop
27	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wanted	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 animals	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 animals	det
30	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 kind	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	past	Suleiman	that dinner			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme
2	show in a quote	to-infinitive	Suleiman not said here		what great king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
3	not want in a quote	past	angel				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
4	is not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	angel not said here			to the animals; kind property	tree rules

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson:18.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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