Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn, sentence 3
Kipling borrowed all of this for his last Just So Story, where Suleiman-bin-Daoud and his queen Balkis help a boasting little Butterfly.
Who acts: Kipling, Balkis · What happens: borrow, help, boast · To what, where: all, boasting little Butterfly
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 (Kipling, Balkis), 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 | Kipling | kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 borrowed | nsubj |
| 2 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 borrowed | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 all | nmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Just | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Story | nmod:poss |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Story | amod |
| 9 | Just | Just | ADV | _ | 3 all | nmod |
| 10 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 Just | flat |
| 11 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Just | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Daoud | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 help | advmod |
| 14 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Daoud | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Suleiman | punct |
| 16 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Daoud | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 bin | punct |
| 18 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Story | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 queen | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 queen | nmod:poss |
| 21 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Story | conj |
| 22 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 help | nsubj |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Story | acl:relcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Butterfly | det |
| 25 | boasting | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 Butterfly | amod |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Butterfly | amod |
| 27 | Butterfly | butterfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 help | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 borrowed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | past | Kipling | all | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | present | Balkis | a boasting little Butterfly | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | boast speech: other | gerund | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=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:3.
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 ×3, 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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