Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 39
One day, when they had quarrelled for three weeks--all nine hundred and ninety-nine wives together--Suleiman-bin-Daoud went out for peace and quiet as usual; and among the orange trees he met Balkis the Most Beautiful, very sorrowful because Suleiman-bin-Daoud was so worried.
Who acts: Afrits, Suleiman · What happens: quarrell, go out, meet, be · To what, where: hundred nine wives, Balkis
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 (Afrits, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quarrelled | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 quarrelled | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 quarrelled | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 quarrelled | aux |
| 7 | quarrelled | quarrell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 weeks | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 weeks | nummod |
| 10 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 quarrelled | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 hundred | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 hundred | nsubj |
| 13 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hundred | compound |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 wives | nummod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ninety | cc |
| 16 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hundred | conj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ninety | punct |
| 18 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 wives | nummod |
| 19 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 quarrelled | obl |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 quarrelled | advmod |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 22 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 went | nsubj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Suleiman | punct |
| 24 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Suleiman | flat |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 bin | punct |
| 26 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Suleiman | flat |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 quarrelled | parataxis |
| 28 | out | out | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 peace | case |
| 30 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 quiet | cc |
| 32 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 peace | conj |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 usual | case |
| 34 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 quiet | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 met | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 met | cc |
| 37 | among | among | ADP | _ | 40 trees | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 trees | det |
| 39 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 trees | amod |
| 40 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 met | obl |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 met | nsubj |
| 42 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 quarrelled | parataxis |
| 43 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 met | obj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Beautiful | det |
| 45 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 46 Beautiful | amod |
| 46 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 met | parataxis |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 sorrowful | punct |
| 48 | very | very | ADV | _ | 49 sorrowful | advmod |
| 49 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 Beautiful | conj |
| 50 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 58 worried | mark |
| 51 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 worried | nsubj |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 Suleiman | punct |
| 53 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 Suleiman | flat |
| 54 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 bin | punct |
| 55 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Suleiman | flat |
| 56 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 worried | cop |
| 57 | so | so | ADV | _ | 58 worried | advmod |
| 58 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 sorrowful | advcl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 quarrelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quarrell | past · perfect | Afrits = afrit | hundred nine wives | day; week | together property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | go out | past | Suleiman | for peace; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | Suleiman | Balkis | among the orange trees | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balkis=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | is | past | Suleiman | worried 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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