--- title: Then Balkis the Most Beautiful Queen--Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s Very Best… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then Balkis the Most Beautiful Queen--Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s Very Best Beloved--Queen that was of Sheba and Sable and the Rivers of the Gold of the South--from the Desert of Zinn to the Towers of Zimbabwe--Balkis, almost as wise as the Most Wise Suleiman-bin-Daoud himself, said, ‘It is nothing, O Quee --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/137/) [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/) / 137 # Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 137 Then Balkis the Most Beautiful Queen--Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s Very Best Beloved--Queen that was of Sheba and Sable and the Rivers of the Gold of the South--from the Desert of Zinn to the Towers of Zimbabwe--Balkis, almost as wise as the Most Wise Suleiman-bin-Daoud himself, said, ‘It is nothing, O Queens! **Who acts:** Suleiman, that, marble · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** Best Beloved, nothing · **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 (Suleiman, that, marble), 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:pg2781:13:137 # text = Then Balkis the Most Beautiful Queen--Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s Very Best Beloved--Queen that was of Sheba and Sable and the Rivers of the Gold of the South--from the Desert of Zinn to the Towers of Zimbabwe--Balkis, almost as wise as the Most Wise Suleiman-bin-Daoud himself, said, ‘It is nothing, O Queens! 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 Balkis Balkis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 5 Beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 -- -- PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Suleiman Suleiman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Daoud Daoud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 Very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 Best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 16 Beloved Beloved PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 -- -- PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Sheba Sheba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 Sable Sable PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Rivers River PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 -- -- PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Desert Desert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Zinn Zinn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Towers tower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 Zimbabwe Zimbabwe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 -- -- PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 Balkis Balkis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 48 almost almost ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 49 as as ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 50 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 parataxis _ _ 51 as as ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 53 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 70 amod _ _ 54 Wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 Suleiman Suleiman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 70 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 58 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 57 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 Daoud Daoud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 list _ _ 60 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 59 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 62 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 64 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 67 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 65 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 67 nsubj _ _ 66 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 67 cop _ _ 67 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 62 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 68 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 69 O o INTJ UH _ 70 discourse _ _ 70 Queens queen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 71 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Suleiman | Best Beloved and Queen | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | that | | | | | of Sheba and Sable and the Desert of Zinn to the Towers of Zimbabwe and Balkis; the Rivers of the Gold of the South *nmod* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | marble | nothing | | | | | tree rules | 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 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/136/) - next →: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/138/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)