Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 46
But Balkis hid among the tall irises and the spotted bamboos and the red lillies behind the camphor-tree, so as to be near her own true love, Suleiman-bin-Daoud.
Who acts: Balkis · What happens: hide, spot, be · To what, where: camphor tree, own true love
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), 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 | _ | 3 hid | cc |
| 2 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 irises | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 irises | det |
| 6 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 irises | amod |
| 7 | irises | iris | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hid | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bamboos | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bamboos | det |
| 10 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bamboos | amod |
| 11 | bamboos | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 irises | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lillies | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lillies | det |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lillies | amod |
| 15 | lillies | lilly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 irises | conj |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 18 | camphor | camphor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 camphor | punct |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 love | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 love | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 love | mark |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 love | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 love | cop |
| 26 | near | near | ADP | _ | 30 love | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 love | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 love | amod |
| 29 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 love | amod |
| 30 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Daoud | punct |
| 32 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Daoud | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Suleiman | punct |
| 34 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Suleiman | flat |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 bin | punct |
| 36 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 love | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Balkis | the camphor tree | among the tall irises and the spotted bamboos and the red lillies | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among iris=Location | |||
| 2 | spot | participle | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Balkis's own true love and Suleiman Daoud | 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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