Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 31

He married nine hundred and ninety-nine wives, besides the Most Beautiful Balkis; and they all lived in a great golden palace in the middle of a lovely garden with fountains.

Who acts: part, wifes · What happens: marry, live · To what, where: hundred nine wives, great golden palace

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 (part, wifes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 married	nsubj
2	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 wives	nummod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ninety	cc
6	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	conj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 ninety	punct
8	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 wives	nummod
9	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 married	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Balkis	punct
11	besides	besides	ADP	_	15 Balkis	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Balkis	det
13	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 Balkis	amod
14	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Balkis	amod
15	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 married	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 lived	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lived	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lived	nsubj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 lived	advmod
20	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 married	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 palace	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 palace	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 palace	amod
24	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 palace	amod
25	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lived	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 middle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 middle	det
28	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 palace	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 garden	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 garden	det
31	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 garden	amod
32	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 middle	nmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 fountains	case
34	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 garden	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	part	hundred nine wives				besides the Most Beautiful Balkis	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	live	past	wifes = wife			a great golden palace in the middle of a lovely garden with fountains			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location

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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