Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 20
In the story he has nine hundred and ninety-nine wives besides Balkis, «just to show that he was the King».
Who acts: Suleiman · What happens: have, show, be · To what, where: hundred wives, story, King · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hundred | compound |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 wives | nummod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ninety | cc |
| 9 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hundred | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ninety | punct |
| 11 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 ninety | nummod |
| 12 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 has | obj |
| 13 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 14 Balkis | case |
| 14 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wives | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 show | punct |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 show | punct |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 show | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 show | mark |
| 19 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 has | advcl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 King | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 King | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 King | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 show | ccomp |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 show | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Suleiman | hundred wives | the story | besides Balkis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||
| 2 | show in a quote | to-infinitive | Suleiman not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | Suleiman | the King | 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:20.
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): R7-rel-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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