Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 149

And Suleiman-bin-Daoud, still looking after the Butterflies where they played in the sunlight, said, ‘O my Lady and Jewel of my Felicity, when did this happen?

Who acts: Suleiman, Lord, this · What happens: look, play, say, happen · To what, where: sunlight · 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, Lord, this), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
2	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Suleiman	punct
4	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Suleiman	flat
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 bin	punct
6	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Suleiman	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looking	punct
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 looking	advmod
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Suleiman	conj
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 Butterflies	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Butterflies	det
12	Butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 looking	obl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 played	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 played	nsubj
15	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Butterflies	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 sunlight	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sunlight	det
18	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 played	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Suleiman	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Lady	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 Lady	punct
23	O	o	INTJ	_	25 Lady	discourse
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 Lady	nmod:poss
25	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	ccomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Jewel	cc
27	Jewel	Jewel	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Lady	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Felicity	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 Felicity	nmod:poss
30	Felicity	felicity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Lady	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 happen	punct
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 happen	advmod
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 happen	aux
34	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 happen	nsubj
35	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 Lady	parataxis
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	look	gerund	Suleiman not said here		after the Butterflies; still	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	play	past	Lord	the sunlight		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Suleiman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	happen	past · do-support	this			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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