Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 15

And yet Suleiman-bin-Daoud was not proud.

Who acts: Suleiman · What happens: not be

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 proud	cc
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 proud	advmod
3	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 proud	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Suleiman	punct
5	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Suleiman	flat
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bin	punct
7	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Suleiman	flat
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 proud	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 proud	advmod
10	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 proud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Suleiman				yet	proud property	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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