Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 84
We know what men-folk are like, don’t we?
Who acts: We, men folk · What happens: know, be · 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 (We, men folk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:1059): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 know | ccomp |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 folk | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 men | punct |
| 6 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 what | case |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | parataxis |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 do | advmod |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | men folk | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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