Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 22

Suleiman-bin-Daoud was more surprised than ever and said, ‘O Animal, you have eaten all the dinner that I made ready for all the animals in the world.’

Who acts: Suleiman, you, dinner · What happens: be, say, eat, make · To what, where: dinner · 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, dinner), 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	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 surprised	advmod
8	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 ever	case
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 surprised	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 surprised	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eaten	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 eaten	punct
15	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	16 Animal	case
16	Animal	Animal	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 eaten	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Animal	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 eaten	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 eaten	aux
20	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 dinner	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dinner	det
23	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eaten	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 made	nsubj
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 made	nsubj
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dinner	acl:relcl
27	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 made	xcomp
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 animals	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 animals	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 animals	det
31	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 ready	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 world	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 animals	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 surprised	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Suleiman		surprised property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Suleiman not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat	present · perfect	you	all dinner	of Animal	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
4	make	past	all dinner		ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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