Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 4

He had a great many wives, and most of them quarrelled all day, which made him miserable.

Who acts: Suleiman, most, day · What happens: have, quarrel, make · To what, where: great many wives, Suleiman

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, most, day), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wives	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wives	amod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wives	amod
6	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 quarrelled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 quarrelled	cc
9	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 quarrelled	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 most	nmod
12	quarrelled	quarrel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 quarrelled	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 made	nsubj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 day	acl:relcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	obj
19	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 made	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Suleiman	a great many wives			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	quarrel	past	most of wives		day		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	all day	Suleiman		miserable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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:4.

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): R8-pos-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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