Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 29

Real life: in the Bible, Solomon was a king of Israel about 3,000 years ago, famous for his wisdom; historians are not sure how much of the old stories about him is history.

Who acts: Solomon, historians, much · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: king, history

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 (Solomon, historians, much), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Bible	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 Bible	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bible	det
6	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 life	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 king	punct
8	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 king	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 king	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Bible	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Israel	case
13	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 king	nmod
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 3,000	advmod
15	3,000	3000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 king	obl:unmarked
17	ago	ago	ADV	_	16 years	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 famous	punct
19	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 king	amod
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 wisdom	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wisdom	nmod:poss
22	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 famous	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 sure	punct
24	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sure	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sure	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 sure	advmod
27	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	parataxis
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 history	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 stories	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stories	det
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stories	amod
33	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 much	nmod
34	about	about	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 stories	nmod
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 history	cop
37	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sure	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Solomon	a king	year	of Israel	tree rules
2	not is	present	historians			sure property	tree rules
3	is a	present	much of the old stories about Solomon	history			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:29.

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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