Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 152
Balkis--The tender and Most Lovely Balkis--said, ‘O my Lord and Regent of my Existence, I hid behind the camphor-tree and saw it all.
Who acts: Balkis, I, my · What happens: say, hide, see, exist · To what, where: Lord, camphor tree, Existence · 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, I, my), 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 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 tender | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tender | det |
| 4 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Balkis | appos |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Balkis | cc |
| 6 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 Balkis | amod |
| 7 | Lovely | Lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Balkis | compound |
| 8 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tender | conj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Balkis | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lord | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lord | punct |
| 13 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 15 Lord | discourse |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Regent | cc |
| 17 | Regent | Regent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lord | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Existence | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 Existence | nmod:poss |
| 20 | Existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Lord | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hid | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 hid | nsubj |
| 23 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 24 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 28 tree | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 26 | camphor | camphor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tree | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 camphor | punct |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hid | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 saw | cc |
| 30 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hid | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 saw | obj |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 it | det |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Balkis | my Lord of my Existence and Regent | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | I | the camphor tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | I not said here | Existence | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | exist | my | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=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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