Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 50
Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud forgot his nine hundred and ninety-nine bothersome wives, and laughed, till the camphor-tree shook, at the Butterfly’s boast.
Who acts: Suleiman, Butterfly · What happens: forget, laugh, boast · To what, where: nine hundred
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, Butterfly), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 forgot | advmod |
| 2 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 forgot | 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 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hundred | nmod:poss |
| 9 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hundred | compound |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 forgot | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ninety | cc |
| 12 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hundred | conj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ninety | punct |
| 14 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 wives | nummod |
| 15 | bothersome | bothersome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wives | amod |
| 16 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hundred | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laughed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 laughed | cc |
| 19 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 forgot | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shook | punct |
| 21 | till | till | ADP | _ | 26 shook | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shook | det |
| 23 | camphor | camphor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tree | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 camphor | punct |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shook | compound |
| 26 | shook | shook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 laughed | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 boast | punct |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 boast | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Butterfly | det |
| 30 | Butterfly | Butterfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 boast | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 Butterfly | case |
| 32 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 laughed | parataxis |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | Suleiman | Suleiman's nine hundred nine bothersome wives | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | laugh | past | Suleiman not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | boast | the Butterfly | nom boast «communication intransitive»: 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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