Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 28

Suleiman: «O great wizard, what is the sense of returning to me my Palace if at the same time you slay me with mirth!» (mirth = laughter)

Who acts: Suleiman, sense, you · What happens: be, return, slay · To what, where: sense, Palace, Butterfly

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, sense, you), 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	11 sense	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Suleiman	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	1 Suleiman	punct
4	O	o	INTJ	_	6 wizard	discourse
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wizard	amod
6	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sense	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Suleiman	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 sense	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sense	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sense	det
11	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 returning	mark
13	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 sense	acl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 returning	obl
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 Palace	nmod:poss
17	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 returning	obj
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 slay	mark
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 time	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 time	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 slay	obl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 slay	nsubj
24	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 returning	advcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 slay	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 mirth	case
27	mirth	mirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 slay	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 sense	punct
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 sense	punct
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 mirth	punct
31	mirth	mirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sense	appos
32	=	=	SYM	_	33 laughter	punct
33	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mirth	conj
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 mirth	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Suleiman	the sense			great wizard vocative	tree rules
2	return in a quote	gerund	the sense not said here	my Palace	the Butterfly = butterfly			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent palace=Theme to i=Destination
3	slay a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	the Butterfly = butterfly		time	with mirth	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with mirth=Instrument

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:28.

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 ×1, 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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