Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 107

‘Slaves,’ said Suleiman-bin-Daoud, ‘when this gentleman on my finger’ (that was where the impudent Butterfly was sitting) ‘stamps his left front forefoot you will make my Palace and these gardens disappear in a clap of thunder.

Who acts: Slaves, gentleman, impudent Butterfly, left front forefoot, Palace · What happens: say, be, sit, stamp, make, disappear · To what, where: gentleman, clap, thunder · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Slaves, gentleman, impudent Butterfly, left front forefoot), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Slaves	punct
2	Slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Slaves	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Slaves	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Suleiman	punct
8	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Suleiman	flat
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 bin	punct
10	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Suleiman	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 when	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 when	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 Suleiman	nmod
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 gentleman	det
15	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 when	nsubj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 finger	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 finger	nmod:poss
18	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gentleman	nmod
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 gentleman	punct
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 where	punct
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 where	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 where	cop
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 gentleman	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Butterfly	det
25	impudent	impudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Butterfly	amod
26	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 sitting	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sitting	aux
28	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 where	advcl:relcl
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	28 sitting	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 stamps	punct
31	stamps	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 sitting	parataxis
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 forefoot	nmod:poss
33	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 forefoot	amod
34	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 forefoot	amod
35	forefoot	forefoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 make	nsubj
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 make	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 make	aux
38	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 stamps	ccomp
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 Palace	nmod:poss
40	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 disappear	nsubj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 gardens	cc
42	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	43 gardens	det
43	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 Palace	conj
44	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 make	parataxis
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 clap	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 clap	det
47	clap	clap	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 disappear	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 thunder	case
49	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 clap	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Slaves				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	this gentleman on my finger	this gentleman on my finger not said here		where property	tree rules
3	sit	past · progressive	the impudent Butterfly				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stamp	present					vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
5	make	future	Suleiman's left front forefoot				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	disappear	present	my Palace and this gardens		a clap of thunder		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	clap			thunder			nom clap «event transitive»: of=patient

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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