Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 16
Balkis to the Butterfly's Wife: «next time he begins to boast, take him at his word.
Who acts: Butterfly, Wife · What happens: begin, boast, take, word · To what, where: Butterfly, word
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 (Butterfly, Wife), 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 | 6 Wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Butterfly | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Butterfly | det |
| 4 | Butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Wife | nmod |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Butterfly | case |
| 6 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | nsubj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 begins | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 begins | punct |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 begins | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 begins | nsubj |
| 12 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 boast | mark |
| 14 | boast | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 begins | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 word | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 word | nmod:poss |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Balkis | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin in a quote | present | Butterfly | time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | boast speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | Butterfly not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | Balkis's Wife to the Butterfly | Butterfly | Butterfly's word | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at word=Asset | |||
| 4 | word in a quote | Butterfly | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:16.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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