Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 33

Some of the wives were nice, but some were simply horrid, and the horrid ones quarrelled with the nice ones and made them horrid too, and then they would all quarrel with Suleiman-bin-Daoud, and that was horrid for him.

Who acts: wives, some, wifes, that · What happens: be, quarrell, make, quarrel · To what, where: horrid ones, wifes

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 (wives, some, wifes, that), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 wives	det
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 wives	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wives	det
4	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nice	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nice	cop
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 horrid	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 horrid	cc
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 horrid	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 horrid	cop
11	simply	simply	ADV	_	12 horrid	advmod
12	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nice	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ones	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ones	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ones	det
16	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ones	amod
17	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nice	conj
18	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 ones	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 ones	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ones	det
21	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ones	amod
22	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 quarrelled	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nice	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	obj
26	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 made	xcomp
27	too	too	ADV	_	24 made	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 quarrel	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 quarrel	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 quarrel	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 quarrel	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 quarrel	aux
33	all	all	ADV	_	34 quarrel	advmod
34	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 nice	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	40 Daoud	case
36	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Daoud	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Suleiman	punct
38	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 Daoud	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 bin	punct
40	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 quarrel	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 horrid	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 horrid	cc
43	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 horrid	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 horrid	cop
45	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nice	conj
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 horrid	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 nice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	some wives			nice property	tree rules
2	is	past	some			horrid, simply property	tree rules
3	quarrell	participle		the horrid ones not said here		with the nice ones	tree rules
4	make	past	some wives not said here	wifes = wife		horrid property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
5	quarrel	would	wifes = wife		then	with Suleiman bin Daoud; all property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with daoud=Co-Agent
6	is	past	that			for part; horrid property	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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