Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 32
The end-poem says Balkis and Solomon both talk to butterflies as you would talk to a friend.
Who acts: end poem, Balkis, you · What happens: say, talk · 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 (end poem, Balkis, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 poem | det |
| 2 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poem | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 end | punct |
| 4 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 talk | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Solomon | cc |
| 8 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Balkis | conj |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 talk | det |
| 10 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 butterflies | case |
| 12 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 talk | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 talk | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 talk | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 talk | aux |
| 16 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 talk | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 friend | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 friend | det |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 talk | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the end poem | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | talk | present | Balkis and Solomon | to butterflies | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to butterfly=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | talk | would | you | to a friend | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to friend=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:32.
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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