Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 18
Suleiman-bin-Daoud was very surprised and said, ‘O Animal, who are you?’
Who acts: Suleiman, you · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Animal · 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, you), 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 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 surprised | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suleiman | punct |
| 3 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Suleiman | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 bin | punct |
| 5 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Suleiman | flat |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 surprised | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 surprised | advmod |
| 8 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 surprised | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ‘ | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 13 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 14 Animal | case |
| 14 | Animal | Animal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 who | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 Animal | acl:relcl |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 who | cop |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 who | nsubj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 surprised | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Suleiman | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Suleiman not said here | of Animal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | you | Animal not said here | 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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