Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 33

Suleiman: if he had made a magic «for the sake of pride or anger», he would have been shamed, but this one was «for the sake of a jest and for the sake of a little Butterfly».

Who acts: Suleiman, one · What happens: make, shame, be · To what, where: magic, Suleiman

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, one), 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	23 shamed	vocative
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 shamed	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 made	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 shamed	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 magic	det
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 sake	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 sake	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sake	det
12	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 pride	case
14	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sake	nmod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 anger	cc
16	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pride	conj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 pride	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 shamed	nsubj:pass
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 shamed	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 shamed	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 shamed	aux:pass
23	shamed	shame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sake	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 sake	cc
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sake	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sake	cop
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	32 sake	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 sake	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sake	det
32	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shamed	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 jest	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 jest	det
35	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sake	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 sake	cc
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 sake	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sake	det
39	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sake	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 Butterfly	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 Butterfly	det
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Butterfly	amod
43	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sake	nmod
44	»	»	PUNCT	_	32 sake	punct
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 shamed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Suleiman	a magic	for the sake of pride or anger	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent magic=Product for sake=Asset
2	shame	would · perfect · passive		Suleiman	Suleiman vocative	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	past	this one		for the sake and the sake of a little Butterfly; of a jest	tree rules

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:33.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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