Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 28
Suleiman-bin-Daoud was a really truly wise man, Best Beloved.
Who acts: Suleiman · What happens: be · To what, where: wise man
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 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 man | 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 | 11 man | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 wise | advmod |
| 9 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 10 wise | advmod |
| 10 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Beloved | punct |
| 13 | Best | Good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Beloved | flat |
| 14 | Beloved | Beloved | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 man | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Suleiman | a wise man | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/28/