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title: Kipling borrowed all of this for his last Just So Story, where Sulei… — Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in man… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kipling borrowed all of this for his last Just So Story, where Suleiman-bin-Daoud and his queen Balkis help a boasting little Butterfly. Who acts: Kipling, Balkis. A sentence of the lesson «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn» of the reli
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# Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn, sentence 3

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Kipling borrowed all of this for his last Just So Story, where Suleiman-bin-Daoud and his queen Balkis help a boasting little Butterfly.

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**Who acts:** Kipling, Balkis · **What happens:** borrow, help, boast · **To what, where:** all, boasting little Butterfly

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn» of the religion ethics 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 (Kipling, Balkis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn.lesson:3
# text = Kipling borrowed all of this for his last Just So Story, where Suleiman-bin-Daoud and his queen Balkis help a boasting little Butterfly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Kipling	kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod:poss
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod
9	Just	Just	ADV	NNP	_	3	nmod	_	_
10	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	flat	_	_
11	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
14	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
22	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	boasting	boast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Butterfly	butterfly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **borrow** | past | Kipling | all |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | present | Balkis |  | a boasting little Butterfly |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **boast** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:religion-ethics:101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn.lesson:3`.

**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 ×3, 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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