Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 148

Then Balkis--The Most Beautiful and Excellent Balkis--went forward through the red lilies into the shade of the camphor-tree and laid her hand upon Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s shoulder and said, ‘O my Lord and Treasure of my Soul, rejoice, for we have taught the Queens of Egypt and Ethiopia and Abyssinia and Persia and India and China with a great and a memorable teaching.’

Who acts: Balkis, Lord · What happens: go, lay, say, rejoice, teach, shade · To what, where: red lilies, hand, shoulder, we, Queens, camphor tree · 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 (Balkis, Lord), 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	11 went	nsubj
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 Balkis	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Balkis	det
5	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 Balkis	nsubj
6	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Balkis	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Excellent	cc
8	Excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Beautiful	conj
9	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Balkis	appos
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 Balkis	punct
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	forward	forward	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	through	through	ADP	_	16 lilies	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lilies	det
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lilies	amod
16	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 went	obl
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 shade	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shade	det
19	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 tree	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tree	det
22	camphor	camphor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tree	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 camphor	punct
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shade	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 laid	cc
26	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 went	conj
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hand	nmod:poss
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 laid	obj
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 shoulder	case
30	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 shoulder	nmod:poss
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Suleiman	punct
32	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Suleiman	flat
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 bin	punct
34	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Suleiman	flat
35	’s	's	PART	_	30 Suleiman	case
36	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 laid	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 went	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 rejoice	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	50 rejoice	punct
41	O	o	INTJ	_	43 Lord	discourse
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 Lord	nmod:poss
43	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 rejoice	nsubj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 Treasure	cc
45	Treasure	Treasure	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Lord	conj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 Soul	case
47	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 Soul	nmod:poss
48	Soul	soul	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Treasure	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 rejoice	punct
50	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 said	ccomp
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 taught	punct
52	for	for	SCONJ	_	55 taught	mark
53	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 taught	nsubj:pass
54	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 taught	aux
55	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 rejoice	parataxis
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 Queens	det
57	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 taught	obj
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 Egypt	case
59	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 Queens	nmod
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 Ethiopia	cc
61	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Egypt	conj
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 Abyssinia	cc
63	Abyssinia	Abyssinia	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Egypt	conj
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 Persia	cc
65	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Egypt	conj
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 India	cc
67	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 Persia	conj
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 China	cc
69	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Egypt	conj
70	with	with	ADP	_	72 great	case
71	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	72 great	det
72	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 taught	obl
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	76 teaching	cc
74	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	76 teaching	det
75	memorable	memorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	76 teaching	amod
76	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 taught	conj
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 rejoice	punct
78	’	'	PUNCT	_	50 rejoice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Balkis			the red lilies	into the shade of the camphor tree; forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through lily=Initial_Location into shade=Destination
2	lay	past	Balkis not said here	Balkis's hand		Suleiman's shoulder		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon shoulder=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	Balkis not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	rejoice	infinitive	my Lord and Treasure of my Soul					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	teach speech: other	present · perfect · passive		we	the Queens of Egypt and Ethiopia and Abyssinia and Persia and India and China		with a great	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient queen=Topic
6	shade			the camphor tree				nom shade «state 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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