Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 57
Suleiman-bin-Daoud smiled in his beard and said, ‘Yes, I know, little brother.
Who acts: Suleiman, I · What happens: smile, say, know · 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), 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 smiled | 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 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 beard | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 beard | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smiled | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 smiled | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 14 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 17 know | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brother | punct |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 brother | amod |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | vocative |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | Suleiman | in Suleiman's beard | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in beard=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Suleiman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know | present | I | little brother vocative | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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