Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn, sentence 15

In Kipling's tale the Butterfly boasts to his wife that if he stamps his foot Suleiman's palace will vanish, and she tests him by telling him to do it; Balkis helps so that his wife believes him and he is not shamed, he never boasts again, and Suleiman laughs but keeps the secret: wise people can stop a boast without shaming the boaster.

Who acts: Butterfly, palace, Balkis, wife, Suleiman, wise people · What happens: boast, stamp, vanish, test, tell, do · To what, where: wife, tale, foot, Butterfly, secret, boast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn» of the religion ethics 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, palace, Balkis, 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 tale	case
2	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tale	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Kipling	case
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boasts	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Butterfly	det
6	Butterfly	butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 boasts	nsubj
7	boasts	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boasts	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 vanish	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 stamps	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stamps	nsubj
14	stamps	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 vanish	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 foot	nmod:poss
16	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stamps	obj
17	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 palace	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Suleiman	case
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 vanish	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 vanish	aux
21	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 boasts	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tests	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tests	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tests	nsubj
25	tests	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 boasts	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tests	obj
27	by	by	SCONJ	_	28 telling	mark
28	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 tests	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 telling	iobj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 do	mark
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 telling	xcomp
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 do	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 stamps	punct
34	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 helps	nsubj
35	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 boasts	parataxis
36	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	40 believes	mark
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 so	fixed
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 wife	nmod:poss
39	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 believes	nsubj
40	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 helps	advcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 believes	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 shamed	cc
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 shamed	nsubj:pass
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 shamed	aux:pass
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 shamed	advmod
46	shamed	shame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 believes	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 boasts	punct
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 boasts	nsubj
49	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	50 boasts	advmod
50	boasts	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 shamed	conj
51	again	again	ADV	_	50 boasts	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 laughs	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 laughs	cc
54	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 laughs	nsubj
55	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 boasts	conj
56	but	but	CCONJ	_	57 keeps	cc
57	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 laughs	conj
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 secret	det
59	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 keeps	obj
60	:	:	PUNCT	_	64 stop	punct
61	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 people	amod
62	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 stop	nsubj
63	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 stop	aux
64	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 keeps	conj
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 boast	det
66	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 stop	obj
67	without	without	SCONJ	_	68 shaming	mark
68	shaming	shame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	64 stop	advcl
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 boaster	det
70	boaster	boaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 shaming	obj
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 boasts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	boast speech: other	present	the Butterfly		Butterfly's wife	Kipling's tale		vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stamp a condition, not said to happen	present	Butterfly	Butterfly's foot				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination
3	vanish	future	Suleiman's palace					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	test	present	palace	Butterfly				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	palace not said here		Butterfly			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	palace not said here	foot				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
7	help	present	Balkis					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	believe	present	Balkis's wife	Butterfly				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
9	not shame	present · passive		Butterfly				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
10	not boast speech: other	present	Butterfly				again	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	laugh	present	Suleiman					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	keep	present	Suleiman not said here	the secret				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
13	stop	can	wise people	a boast				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector boast=Eventuality
14	shame	gerund	wise people not said here	the boaster				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus boaster=Experiencer
15	tell		Kipling					nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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:religion-ethics:101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn.lesson:15.

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, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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