Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 126

Of course it doesn’t make any difference to me--I’m used to this kind of thing--but as a favour to you and to Suleiman-bin-Daoud I don’t mind putting things right.’

Who acts: nagging, I · What happens: not make, use, not mind, put · To what, where: difference, me, I, things

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 (nagging, I), 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	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	6 make	advmod
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 difference	det
8	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 make	obl
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 used	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 used	nsubj
13	’m	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 used	aux:pass
14	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 make	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 kind	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 kind	det
17	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 used	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 thing	case
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kind	nmod
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 mind	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 mind	cc
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 favour	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 favour	det
24	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 mind	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 favour	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Daoud	cc
28	to	to	ADP	_	33 Daoud	case
29	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Daoud	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Suleiman	punct
31	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Suleiman	flat
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 bin	punct
33	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 you	conj
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 mind	nsubj
35	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 mind	aux
36	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 mind	advmod
37	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	conj
38	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 mind	xcomp
39	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 putting	obj
40	right	right	ADV	_	38 putting	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not make	present · do-support	nagging	any difference	me		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product
2	use	present · passive		I		to this kind of thing	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	not mind	present · do-support	I			as a favour to you	vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	put	gerund	I not said here	things		right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal

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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