--- title: Balkis's words to Suleiman: «First, O my Lord, because I loved you;… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics description: Balkis's words to Suleiman: «First, O my Lord, because I loved you; and secondly, O my Lord, because I know what women-folk are.» The story's jokes about «what women-folk are» and «what men-folk are» belong to 1902; real people do not all fit such ideas. 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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 (Egyptian Queen, words, women, men), 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:31 # text = Balkis's words to Suleiman: «First, O my Lord, because I loved you; and secondly, O my Lord, because I know what women-folk are.» The story's jokes about «what women-folk are» and «what men-folk are» belong to 1902; real people do not all fit such ideas. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Balkis Balkis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Suleiman Suleiman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 8 First first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 O of INTJ UH _ 12 discourse _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 secondly secondly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 22 O of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 24 discourse _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:case 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 28 ccomp _ _ 30 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 32 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 36 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 's 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 40 about about ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 « « PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 42 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nmod _ _ 43 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ _ 45 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 46 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 47 » » PUNCT '' _ 65 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 49 « « PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 50 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 65 obl _ _ 51 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nsubj _ _ 52 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 53 punct _ _ 53 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 conj _ _ 54 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 55 » » PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ 56 belong belong VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 parataxis _ _ 57 to to ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 1902 1902 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 56 obl _ _ 59 ; ; PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 60 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 65 nsubj _ _ 62 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 65 aux _ _ 63 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 65 advmod _ _ 64 all all ADV RB _ 65 advmod _ _ 65 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 acl:relcl _ _ 66 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 amod _ _ 67 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 65 obj _ _ 68 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** *in a quote* | past | a Egyptian Queen *= queen* | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Balkis's words to Suleiman | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | women and folk | | | | | the story's jokes *nmod* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | men and folk | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **belong** | infinitive | | | | | | to 1902 | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **fit** | present · do-support | real people | such ideas | | | | all *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | | 7 | **word** | | Balkis | | | | | to Suleiman | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | | 8 | **joke** | | the story | | | | | | nom joke «communication intransitive»: 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:31`. **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 ×2, 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. 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