Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 2
There are three hundred and fifty-five stories about Suleiman-bin-Daoud; but this is not one of them.
Who acts: hundred stories, this · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: one
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 (hundred stories, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 stories | nummod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 five | cc |
| 6 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 five | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 fifty | punct |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | conj |
| 9 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 Daoud | case |
| 11 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Daoud | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Suleiman | punct |
| 13 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Suleiman | flat |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 bin | punct |
| 15 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stories | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 one | cc |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 one | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 one | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 are | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | hundred stories about Suleiman Daoud | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | this | one | of Daoud | 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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