Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 25

Suleiman whispers: «Little man, you know that all your stamping wouldn't bend one blade of grass.

Who acts: Suleiman, you, stamping · What happens: whisper, know, not bend · To what, where: one blade · 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, you, stamping), 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	2 whispers	nsubj
2	whispers	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
5	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whispers	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
9	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whispers	ccomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 bend	mark
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 stamping	det:predet
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stamping	nmod:poss
13	stamping	stamping	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bend	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bend	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 bend	advmod
16	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 know	ccomp
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 blade	nummod
18	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bend	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 grass	case
20	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blade	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 whispers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	present	Suleiman		Little man vocative	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not bend in a quote	would	your stamping	one blade of grass		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent blade=Material

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:25.

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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