Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 34
But Balkis the Most Beautiful never quarrelled with Suleiman-bin-Daoud.
Who acts: Balkis · What happens: not quarrell
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 (Balkis), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 quarrelled | cc |
| 2 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 quarrelled | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Beautiful | det |
| 4 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 Beautiful | amod |
| 5 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Balkis | amod |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 quarrelled | advmod |
| 7 | quarrelled | quarrell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Daoud | case |
| 9 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Daoud | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Suleiman | punct |
| 11 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Suleiman | flat |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 bin | punct |
| 13 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 quarrelled | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 quarrelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not quarrell | past | Balkis | with Suleiman 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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