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title: Suleiman: if he had made a magic «for the sake of pride or anger», h… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Suleiman: if he had made a magic «for the sake of pride or anger», he would have been shamed, but this one was «for the sake of a jest and for the sake of a little Butterfly». Who acts: Suleiman, one. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps
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# Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 33

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Suleiman: if he had made a magic «for the sake of pride or anger», he would have been shamed, but this one was «for the sake of a jest and for the sake of a little Butterfly».

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**Who acts:** Suleiman, one · **What happens:** make, shame, be · **To what, where:** magic, Suleiman

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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 (Suleiman, one), 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:33
# text = Suleiman: if he had made a magic «for the sake of pride or anger», he would have been shamed, but this one was «for the sake of a jest and for the sake of a little Butterfly».
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	vocative	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	shamed	shame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=23:punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	jest	jest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
44	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Suleiman | a magic |  |  |  | for the sake of pride or anger | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent magic=Product for sake=Asset |
| 2 | **shame** | would · perfect · passive |  | Suleiman |  |  |  | Suleiman *vocative* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | this one |  |  |  |  | for the sake and the sake of a little Butterfly; of a jest | tree rules |

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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:097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.lesson:33`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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