Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 44
And Suleiman-bin-Daoud said, ‘O my Lady and Content of my Heart, I shall continue to endure my fate at the hands of these nine hundred and ninety-nine Queens who vex me with their continual quarrelling.’
Who acts: Suleiman, I, hundred nine Queens, my · What happens: say, continue, endure, vex, fate · To what, where: fate, hands, 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, I, hundred nine Queens, my), 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 | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 2 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | 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 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lady | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lady | punct |
| 10 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 12 Lady | discourse |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Lady | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Content | cc |
| 14 | Content | Content | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lady | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Heart | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Lady | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 continue | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 continue | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 continue | aux |
| 21 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 endure | mark |
| 23 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 continue | xcomp |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fate | nmod:poss |
| 25 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 endure | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 hands | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hands | det |
| 28 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 endure | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Queens | case |
| 30 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 32 hundred | nsubj |
| 31 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 hundred | compound |
| 32 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 Queens | nummod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 ninety | cc |
| 34 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 hundred | conj |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 ninety | punct |
| 36 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 Queens | nummod |
| 37 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 hands | nmod |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 vex | nsubj |
| 39 | vex | vex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 Queens | acl:relcl |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 vex | obj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 quarrelling | case |
| 42 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 quarrelling | nmod:poss |
| 43 | continual | continual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 quarrelling | amod |
| 44 | quarrelling | quarrelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 vex | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 continue | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 continue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Suleiman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | continue | shall | I | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | endure | to-infinitive | I not said here | my fate | the hands of hundred nine Queens | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fate=Circumstance | |||
| 4 | vex | present | hundred nine Queens | me | with Lady's continual quarrelling | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | fate | my | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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