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title: «She will never laugh at you again,» says Suleiman, and for the Butt… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: «She will never laugh at you again,» says Suleiman, and for the Butterfly's sake, not to show off, he turns his ring. Who acts: Wife, Suleiman. 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 
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# Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 4

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«She will never laugh at you again,» says Suleiman, and for the Butterfly's sake, not to show off, he turns his ring.

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**Who acts:** Wife, Suleiman · **What happens:** not laugh, say, not show off, turn · **To what, where:** ring · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Wife, Suleiman), 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:4
# text = «She will never laugh at you again,» says Suleiman, and for the Butterfly's sake, not to show off, he turns his ring.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Butterfly	butterfly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **not** **laugh** *in a quote* | future | Wife |  |  |  | again | at you | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Suleiman and the Butterfly's sake |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **show off** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **turn** | present | Suleiman | Butterfly's ring |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |

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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:4`.

**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): 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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