Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 130

Suleiman-bin-Daolld could hardly speak for laughing.

Who acts: Suleiman · What happens: speak, laugh · 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 (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	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 speak	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Suleiman	punct
3	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Suleiman	flat
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 bin	punct
5	Daolld	Daolld	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Suleiman	flat
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 speak	aux
7	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	8 speak	advmod
8	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 laughing	mark
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 speak	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	could	Suleiman					hardly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	gerund	Suleiman not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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.

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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