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title: Balkis saw the four vast Djinns stoop down to the four corners of th… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Balkis saw the four vast Djinns stoop down to the four corners of the gardens with the Palace in the middle, and she clapped her hands softly and said, ‘At last Suleiman-bin-Daoud will do for the sake of a Butterfly what he ought to have done long ago for his own sake, and the quarrelsome Queens wil
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 115

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Balkis saw the four vast Djinns stoop down to the four corners of the gardens with the Palace in the middle, and she clapped her hands softly and said, ‘At last Suleiman-bin-Daoud will do for the sake of a Butterfly what he ought to have done long ago for his own sake, and the quarrelsome Queens will be frightened!’

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**Who acts:** Balkis, four vast Djinns · **What happens:** see, stoop down, clap, say, do, frighten · **To what, where:** middle, hands, last Suleiman Daoud, quarrelsome Queens · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Balkis, four vast Djinns), 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:pg2781:13:115
# text = Balkis saw the four vast Djinns stoop down to the four corners of the gardens with the Palace in the middle, and she clapped her hands softly and said, ‘At last Suleiman-bin-Daoud will do for the sake of a Butterfly what he ought to have done long ago for his own sake, and the quarrelsome Queens will be frightened!’
1	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Djinns	djinn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stoop	stoop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	clapped	clap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
32	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	At	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
34	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
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	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
40	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	47	acl:relcl	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
52	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	aux	_	_
53	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	xcomp	_	_
54	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	55	advmod	_	_
55	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
56	for	for	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
58	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
63	quarrelsome	quarrelsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	Queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	67	nsubj:pass	_	_
65	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	67	aux	_	_
66	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	67	aux:pass	_	_
67	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	67	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	67	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Balkis |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stoop down** | present | the four vast Djinns |  |  | the middle |  | to the four corners of the gardens with the Palace; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location |
| 3 | **clap** | past | Balkis | Balkis's hands |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Balkis *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **do** | future |  |  |  | last Suleiman Daoud |  | for the sake of a Butterfly | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | for Butterfly's own sake; ago *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **frighten** | future · passive |  | the quarrelsome Queens |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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