Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 43
And Balkis the Most Beautiful said, ‘O my Lord and Treasure of my Soul, what will you do?’
Who acts: Balkis, Lord · What happens: say, do · 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), 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 | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 2 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Beautiful | det |
| 4 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 Beautiful | amod |
| 5 | Beautiful | Beautiful | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Balkis | appos |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Lord | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Lord | punct |
| 9 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 11 Lord | discourse |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 do | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Treasure | cc |
| 13 | Treasure | Treasure | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Lord | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Soul | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Soul | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Soul | Soul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Lord | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 do | obj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Balkis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | future | my Lord of my Soul and Treasure | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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