Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 12
Upon the third finger of the right hand he wore a ring.
Who acts: Suleiman · What happens: wear · To what, where: ring
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), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 finger | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 finger | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 finger | amod |
| 4 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wore | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hand | det |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hand | amod |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wore | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wore | nsubj |
| 10 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ring | det |
| 12 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wore | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Suleiman | a ring | upon the third finger; of the right hand | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ring=Theme of hand=Source |
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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