--- title: A Butterfly has made complaint against his wife because she quarrell… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: A Butterfly has made complaint against his wife because she quarrelled with him, and it has pleased our Lord Suleiman-bin-Daoud to teach her a lesson in low-speaking and humbleness, for that is counted a virtue among the wives of the butterflies.’ Who acts: Queen, marble. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, 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:pg2781:13:138 # text = A Butterfly has made complaint against his wife because she quarrelled with him, and it has pleased our Lord Suleiman-bin-Daoud to teach her a lesson in low-speaking and humbleness, for that is counted a virtue among the wives of the butterflies.’ 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 complaint complaint NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ _ 6 against against ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 quarrelled quarrell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 Suleiman Suleiman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Daoud Daoud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 in in SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 humbleness humbleness NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 for for SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 counted count VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 conj _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 virtue virtue NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 among among ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 wives wife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · perfect · passive | | a Butterfly | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **quarrell** | past | Queen | | | | | with Butterfly | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | marble | our Lord | | | | pleased *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | marble *not said here* | a lesson | Queen | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient lesson=Topic | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | marble *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **count** | present · passive | | that | | | | among the wives of the butterflies | 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 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/137/) - next →: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/139/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)