Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 92

‘I promised Suleiman-bin-Daoud that I wouldn’t,’ said the Butterfly, ‘and I don’t want to break my promise.’

Who acts: I, Butterfly, my · What happens: promise, say, not want, break · To what, where: Suleiman, promise · 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 (I, Butterfly, my), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
4	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 promised	obj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Suleiman	punct
6	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Suleiman	flat
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 bin	punct
8	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Suleiman	flat
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 would	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 would	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	ccomp
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 would	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Butterfly	det
17	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ‘	punct
19	‘	‘	INTJ	_	17 Butterfly	discourse
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 want	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 want	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 want	aux
23	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 want	advmod
24	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 break	mark
26	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 want	xcomp
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 promise	nmod:poss
28	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 break	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	I		Suleiman	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent suleiman=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Butterfly			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not want	present · do-support	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	break not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	my promise		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient
5	promise		my			nom promise «communication 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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