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title: The Djinns jerked the Palace and the gardens a thousand miles into t… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The Djinns jerked the Palace and the gardens a thousand miles into the air: there was a most awful thunder-clap, and everything grew inky-black. Who acts: Djinns, awful thunder clap, everything. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped, with its dependency tree 
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 117

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The Djinns jerked the Palace and the gardens a thousand miles into the air: there was a most awful thunder-clap, and everything grew inky-black.

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**Who acts:** Djinns, awful thunder clap, everything · **What happens:** jerk, be, grow · **To what, where:** Palace, air

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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 (Djinns, awful thunder clap, everything), 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:pg2781:13:117
# text = The Djinns jerked the Palace and the gardens a thousand miles into the air: there was a most awful thunder-clap, and everything grew inky-black.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Djinns	djinn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jerked	jerk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	clap	clap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
27	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	inky	inky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jerk** | past | the Djinns | the Palace and the gardens |  | the air |  | thousand miles *obl:unmarked* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent palace=Result |
| 2 | **be** | past | a awful thunder clap |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past | everything |  |  |  |  | black *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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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