Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 99

Suleiman-bin-Daoud, sitting under the camphor-tree, heard every word of this, and he laughed as he had never laughed in his life before.

Who acts: Suleiman · What happens: sit, hear, laugh, not laugh, word · To what, where: camphor tree, word, Suleiman, life, this

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), 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	14 heard	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Suleiman	acl
8	under	under	ADP	_	12 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
10	camphor	camphor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 camphor	punct
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Suleiman	punct
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 word	det
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 this	case
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 word	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laughed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 laughed	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laughed	nsubj
22	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	conj
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 laughed	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 laughed	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 laughed	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 laughed	advmod
27	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 laughed	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 life	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 life	nmod:poss
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 laughed	obl
31	before	before	ADV	_	27 laughed	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	Suleiman not said here		the camphor tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
2	hear	past	Suleiman	every word of this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	laugh	past	Suleiman				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not laugh	past · perfect · passive		Suleiman	Suleiman's life	before property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	word			this			nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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