Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 10

He understood everything, from the bishop on the bench to the hyssop on the wall, and Balkis, his Head Queen, the Most Beautiful Queen Balkis, was nearly as wise as he was.

Who acts: Suleiman, Balkis · What happens: understand, be · To what, where: everything, bishop

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Suleiman, Balkis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 understood	nsubj
2	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 understood	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bishop	punct
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 bishop	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bishop	det
7	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 understood	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 bench	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bench	det
10	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bishop	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 hyssop	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hyssop	det
13	hyssop	hyssop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bench	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 wall	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wall	det
16	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hyssop	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Balkis	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Balkis	cc
19	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 wise	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Head	punct
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 Head	nmod:poss
22	Head	Head	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Balkis	appos
23	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Head	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Balkis	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Balkis	det
26	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 Balkis	amod
27	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Balkis	amod
28	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Balkis	compound
29	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Balkis	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Balkis	punct
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 wise	cop
32	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	34 wise	advmod
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 wise	advmod
34	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 understood	parataxis
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 was	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 was	nsubj
37	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 wise	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	understand	past	Suleiman	everything	the bishop on the bench to the hyssop on the wall		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
2	is	past	Balkis and the Most Beautiful Queen Balkis			nearly, wise property	tree rules
3	be	past	Suleiman				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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