Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 45

So he went on between the lilies and the loquats and the roses and the cannas and the heavy-scented ginger-plants that grew in the garden, till he came to the great camphor-tree that was called the Camphor Tree of Suleiman-bin-Daoud.

Who acts: Suleiman, scented ginger plants · What happens: go on, scent, grow, come, call · To what, where: lilies, garden, great camphor tree · 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, scented ginger plants), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	between	between	ADP	_	7 lilies	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lilies	det
7	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 loquats	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 loquats	det
10	loquats	loquat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lilies	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 roses	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 roses	det
13	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 loquats	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cannas	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cannas	det
16	cannas	canna	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 loquats	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 plants	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 plants	det
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 scented	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 heavy	punct
21	scented	scent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 plants	amod
22	ginger	ginger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 plants	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 ginger	punct
24	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lilies	conj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 grew	nsubj
26	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 plants	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 garden	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 garden	det
29	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grew	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 came	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	39 tree	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 tree	det
36	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 tree	amod
37	camphor	camphor	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tree	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 camphor	punct
39	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	obl
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 called	nsubj:pass
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 called	aux:pass
42	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 tree	acl:relcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Tree	det
44	Camphor	Camphor	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Tree	compound
45	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 called	xcomp
46	of	of	ADP	_	51 Daoud	case
47	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 Daoud	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 Suleiman	punct
49	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 Suleiman	flat
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 bin	punct
51	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Tree	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go on	past	Suleiman		the lilies and the loquats and the roses and the cannas and the scented ginger plants	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between lily=Location
2	scent	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	grow	past	the scented ginger plants		the garden	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location
4	come	past	Suleiman		the great camphor tree	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
5	call	past · passive		the great camphor tree		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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