Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 41
But Suleiman-bin-Daoud shook his head and said, ‘O my Lady and Delight of my Life, remember the Animal that came out of the sea and made me ashamed before all the animals in all the world because I showed off.
Who acts: Suleiman, Animal, me, I · What happens: shake, say, remember, come out, make, asham · To what, where: head, Animal, sea, me · 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 (Suleiman, Animal, me, I), 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 shook | cc |
| 2 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Suleiman | punct |
| 4 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Suleiman | flat |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 bin | punct |
| 6 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Suleiman | flat |
| 7 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shook | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shook | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Lady | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Lady | punct |
| 14 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 16 Lady | discourse |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Lady | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Delight | cc |
| 18 | Delight | Delight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Lady | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Life | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Delight | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 remember | punct |
| 23 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 shook | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Animal | det |
| 25 | Animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 remember | obj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Animal | acl:relcl |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 sea | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 sea | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sea | det |
| 31 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 made | cc |
| 33 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 came | conj |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 made | obj |
| 35 | ashamed | asham | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 made | xcomp |
| 36 | before | before | ADP | _ | 39 animals | case |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 animals | det:predet |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 animals | det |
| 39 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 ashamed | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 world | case |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 world | det:predet |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 world | det |
| 43 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 animals | nmod |
| 44 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 46 showed | mark |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 showed | nsubj |
| 46 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 ashamed | advcl |
| 47 | off | off | ADP | _ | 46 showed | compound:prt |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | Suleiman | Suleiman's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Suleiman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | remember | infinitive | Suleiman not said here | the Animal | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come out | past | the Animal | the sea | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sea=Result | ||||
| 5 | make | past | the Animal not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | asham | participle | me not said here | before all animals in all world | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | show off | past | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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