Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 12
Suleiman did not even know about the Queens; he had only been playing a joke with a Butterfly.
Who acts: Suleiman · What happens: not know, play · To what, where: joke
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 Queens | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queens | det |
| 8 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 know | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 playing | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 playing | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 playing | aux |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 playing | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 playing | aux |
| 14 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 know | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 joke | det |
| 16 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 playing | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Butterfly | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Butterfly | det |
| 19 | Butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 playing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Suleiman | about the Queens | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about queen=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | play | past · perfect · progressive | Suleiman | a joke | with a Butterfly | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent joke=Theme with butterfly=Co-Agent |
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:097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.lesson:12.
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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