--- title: The Butterfly's boast: «if I stamped with my foot all Suleiman-bin-D… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics description: The Butterfly's boast: «if I stamped with my foot all Suleiman-bin-Daoud's Palace and this garden here would immediately vanish in a clap of thunder.» Who acts: boast, all, Butterfly. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boast, all, Butterfly), 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:24 # text = The Butterfly's boast: «if I stamped with my foot all Suleiman-bin-Daoud's Palace and this garden here would immediately vanish in a clap of thunder.» # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 boast boast NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 stamped stamp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 nsubj _ _ 14 Suleiman Suleiman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 bin Bin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:list|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 Daoud Daoud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 Palace Palace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 24 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 vanish vanish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 clap clap NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stamp** *in a quote* | past | the Butterfly's boast | | | | | with my foot | tree rules | | 2 | **vanish** *in a quote* | would | all | | | a clap of thunder | | immediately *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **boast** | | the Butterfly | | | | | | nom boast «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | | 4 | **clap** *in a quote* | | | thunder | | | | | nom clap «event 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. **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:24`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/23/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/)