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title: THIS, O my Best Beloved, is a story--a new and a wonderful story--a… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: THIS, O my Best Beloved, is a story--a new and a wonderful story--a story quite different from the other stories--a story about The Most Wise Sovereign Suleiman-bin-Daoud--Solomon the Son of David. Who acts: Best Beloved. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 1

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THIS, O my Best Beloved, is a story--a new and a wonderful story--a story quite different from the other stories--a story about The Most Wise Sovereign Suleiman-bin-Daoud--Solomon the Son of David.

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**Who acts:** Best Beloved · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** story

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Best Beloved), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:13:1
# text = THIS, O my Best Beloved, is a story--a new and a wonderful story--a story quite different from the other stories--a story about The Most Wise Sovereign Suleiman-bin-Daoud--Solomon the Son of David.
1	THIS	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	vocative	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
21	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
30	about	about	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
31	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
32	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	nsubj	_	_
33	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Sovereign	Sovereign	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
35	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | my Best Beloved | a story |  |  |  |  | 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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**Text:** «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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