--- title: Balkis to the Butterfly's Wife: «next time he begins to boast, take… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics description: Balkis to the Butterfly's Wife: «next time he begins to boast, take him at his word. Who acts: Butterfly, Wife. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» of the books course of Mova's primary school with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/) / 16 # Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 16 Balkis to the Butterfly's Wife: «next time he begins to boast, take him at his word. **Who acts:** Butterfly, Wife · **What happens:** begin, boast, take, word · **To what, where:** Butterfly, word This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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 (Butterfly, Wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.lesson:16 # text = Balkis to the Butterfly's Wife: «next time he begins to boast, take him at his word. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Balkis Balkis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:nmod 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:case 6 Wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 9 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 boast boast VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** *in a quote* | present | Butterfly | | | | time | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **boast** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Butterfly *not said here* | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | Balkis's Wife to the Butterfly | Butterfly | | Butterfly's word | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at word=Asset | | 4 | **word** *in a quote* | | Butterfly | | | | | | nom word «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. **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:097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.lesson:16`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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. 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