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title: His ring: turned once, Afrits and Djinns came out of the earth; twic… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: His ring: turned once, Afrits and Djinns came out of the earth; twice, Fairies came down from the sky; three times, «the very great angel Azrael of the Sword» came, dressed as a water-carrier, with the news of the three worlds. Who acts: ring, Fairies, great angel. A sentence of the lesson «Just So 
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# Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 15

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His ring: turned once, Afrits and Djinns came out of the earth; twice, Fairies came down from the sky; three times, «the very great angel Azrael of the Sword» came, dressed as a water-carrier, with the news of the three worlds.

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**Who acts:** ring, Fairies, great angel · **What happens:** turn, come out, come down, come, dress · **To what, where:** ring, earth, sky

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring, Fairies, great angel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson:15
# text = His ring: turned once, Afrits and Djinns came out of the earth; twice, Fairies came down from the sky; three times, «the very great angel Azrael of the Sword» came, dressed as a water-carrier, with the news of the three worlds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Afrits	afrit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Djinns	djinn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Fairies	fairy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:appos
33	Azrael	Azrael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Sword	sword	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
37	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
38	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:xcomp
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	_
45	carrier	carrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	nummod	_	_
53	worlds	world	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | participle |  | Suleiman's ring *not said here* |  |  |  | once *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come out** | past | Suleiman's ring | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient earth=Result |
| 3 | **come down** | past | Fairies |  |  | the sky |  | down, twice *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | the great angel |  |  |  | time | with the news of the three worlds | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dress** | participle | the great angel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a water carrier | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson:15`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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