--- title: ‘Slaves,’ said Suleiman-bin-Daoud, ‘when this gentleman on my finger… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Slaves,’ said Suleiman-bin-Daoud, ‘when this gentleman on my finger’ (that was where the impudent Butterfly was sitting) ‘stamps his left front forefoot you will make my Palace and these gardens disappear in a clap of thunder. Who acts: Slaves, gentleman, impudent Butterfly, left front forefoot. A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/107/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/) / 107 # Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 107 ‘Slaves,’ said Suleiman-bin-Daoud, ‘when this gentleman on my finger’ (that was where the impudent Butterfly was sitting) ‘stamps his left front forefoot you will make my Palace and these gardens disappear in a clap of thunder. **Who acts:** Slaves, gentleman, impudent Butterfly, left front forefoot, Palace · **What happens:** say, be, sit, stamp, make, disappear · **To what, where:** gentleman, clap, thunder · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Slaves, gentleman, impudent Butterfly, left front forefoot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2781:13:107 # text = ‘Slaves,’ said Suleiman-bin-Daoud, ‘when this gentleman on my finger’ (that was where the impudent Butterfly was sitting) ‘stamps his left front forefoot you will make my Palace and these gardens disappear in a clap of thunder. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Suleiman Suleiman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Daoud Daoud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 nmod _ _ 14 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 gentleman gentleman NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 acl:relcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 impudent impudent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 Butterfly Butterfly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 advcl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 30 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 stamps stamp VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 33 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 forefoot forefoot NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 39 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 Palace Palace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 43 det _ _ 43 gardens garden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ _ 44 disappear disappear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 parataxis _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 clap clap NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Slaves | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | this gentleman on my finger | this gentleman on my finger *not said here* | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **sit** | past · progressive | the impudent Butterfly | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stamp** | present | | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | | 5 | **make** | future | Suleiman's left front forefoot | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **disappear** | present | my Palace and this gardens | | | a clap of thunder | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **clap** | | | thunder | | | | | nom clap «event transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/106/) - next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/108/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)