Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 48

Suleiman-bin-Daoud heard one say to the other, ‘I wonder at your presumption in talking like this to me.

Who acts: Suleiman, one, I, your · What happens: hear, say, wonder, talk, presume · To what, where: other, presumption, 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, one, I, your), 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	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Suleiman	punct
3	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Suleiman	flat
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 bin	punct
5	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Suleiman	flat
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heard	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 other	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wonder	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 wonder	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 wonder	nsubj
15	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	parataxis
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 presumption	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 presumption	nmod:poss
18	presumption	presumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wonder	obl
19	in	in	SCONJ	_	20 talking	mark
20	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 wonder	advcl
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 this	case
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 talking	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 talking	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Suleiman				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	one	the other			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient
3	wonder speech: ask	present	I		your presumption		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	talk	gerund	I not said here	me		like this	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
5	presume		your				nom presumption «cognition 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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