Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 13
Balkis explains it was her plan, and that she was wise «First, O my Lord, because I loved you».
Who acts: Balkis, joke · What happens: explain, be, love · To what, where: plan, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Balkis, joke), 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 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 explains | nsubj |
| 2 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 plan | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plan | cop |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 plan | nmod:poss |
| 6 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 explains | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wise | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wise | cc |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 wise | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wise | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wise | cop |
| 12 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 explains | conj |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 First | punct |
| 14 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 wise | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Lord | punct |
| 16 | O | O | INTJ | _ | 18 Lord | discourse |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 First | vocative |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 loved | punct |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 loved | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 loved | nsubj |
| 22 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wise | advcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 loved | obj |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 explains | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 explains | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | present | Balkis | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | joke | Balkis's plan | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Balkis | first, wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love in a quote | past | Balkis | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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:13.
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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