Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 137

Then Balkis the Most Beautiful Queen--Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s Very Best Beloved--Queen that was of Sheba and Sable and the Rivers of the Gold of the South--from the Desert of Zinn to the Towers of Zimbabwe--Balkis, almost as wise as the Most Wise Suleiman-bin-Daoud himself, said, ‘It is nothing, O Queens!

Who acts: Suleiman, that, marble · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Best Beloved, nothing · 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, that, marble), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Balkis	advmod
2	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
4	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 Queen	amod
5	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Queen	amod
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Balkis	appos
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 Beloved	punct
8	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Beloved	nsubj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Suleiman	punct
10	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Suleiman	flat
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 bin	punct
12	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Suleiman	flat
13	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Beloved	cop
14	Very	very	ADV	_	15 Best	advmod
15	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 Beloved	amod
16	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Balkis	appos
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 Queen	punct
18	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Beloved	conj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 Sheba	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 Sheba	cop
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Sheba	case
22	Sheba	Sheba	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Balkis	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Sable	cc
24	Sable	Sable	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Sheba	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Rivers	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Rivers	det
27	Rivers	River	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 Sheba	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Gold	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Gold	det
30	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Rivers	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 South	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 South	det
33	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Gold	nmod
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 Desert	punct
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 Desert	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Desert	det
37	Desert	Desert	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Sheba	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Zinn	case
39	Zinn	Zinn	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Desert	nmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 Towers	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Towers	det
42	Towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 Desert	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 Zimbabwe	case
44	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Towers	nmod
45	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 Balkis	punct
46	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Zimbabwe	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 wise	punct
48	almost	almost	ADV	_	50 wise	advmod
49	as	as	ADV	_	50 wise	advmod
50	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Desert	parataxis
51	as	as	ADP	_	70 Queens	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 Queens	det
53	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	70 Queens	amod
54	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 Suleiman	amod
55	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	70 Queens	nsubj
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 Suleiman	punct
57	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 Suleiman	flat
58	-	-	PUNCT	_	57 bin	punct
59	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 Suleiman	list
60	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	59 Daoud	nmod:unmarked
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 said	punct
62	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 Suleiman	parataxis
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 nothing	punct
64	‘	'	PUNCT	_	67 nothing	punct
65	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 nothing	nsubj
66	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 nothing	cop
67	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	62 said	ccomp
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 Queens	punct
69	O	o	INTJ	_	70 Queens	discourse
70	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 wise	obl
71	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Balkis	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Suleiman	Best Beloved and Queen		tree rules
2	is	past	that		of Sheba and Sable and the Desert of Zinn to the Towers of Zimbabwe and Balkis; the Rivers of the Gold of the South nmod	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	marble	nothing		tree rules

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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