Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 40

And she said to him, ‘O my Lord and Light of my Eyes, turn the ring upon your finger and show these Queens of Egypt and Mesopotamia and Persia and China that you are the great and terrible King.’

Who acts: Balkis, Lord, you · What happens: say, turn, show, be · To what, where: Suleiman, ring, Queens · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Lord, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Lord	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 Lord	punct
8	O	o	INTJ	_	10 Lord	discourse
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 Lord	nmod:poss
10	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 turn	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Light	cc
12	Light	Light	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Lord	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Eyes	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Eyes	nmod:poss
15	Eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Lord	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turn	punct
17	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ring	det
19	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turn	obj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 finger	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 finger	nmod:poss
22	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turn	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 show	cc
24	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 turn	conj
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 Queens	det
26	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 show	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Egypt	case
28	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Queens	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Mesopotamia	cc
30	Mesopotamia	Mesopotamia	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Egypt	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 Persia	cc
32	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Egypt	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 China	cc
34	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Egypt	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 great	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 great	nsubj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 great	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 great	det
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 show	ccomp
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 terrible	cc
41	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 great	conj
42	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 great	vocative
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 turn	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Balkis		Suleiman		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	turn	infinitive	my Lord of my Eyes and Light	the ring		upon your finger	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
3	show	infinitive	my Lord of my Eyes and Light not said here		this Queens of Egypt and Mesopotamia and Persia and China		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient
4	is	present	you			King vocative; great property	tree rules
5	be		you not said here				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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