Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 60
And Suleiman-bin-Daoud said, ‘May it quiet her.
Who acts: Suleiman, garden · What happens: say, quiet · To what, where: Head · 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, garden), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 2 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | 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 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 quiet | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 quiet | punct |
| 10 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 quiet | aux |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 quiet | nsubj |
| 12 | quiet | quiet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 quiet | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Suleiman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | quiet | may | garden | Head | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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