--- title: Then Balkis--The Most Beautiful and Excellent Balkis--went forward t… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then Balkis--The Most Beautiful and Excellent Balkis--went forward through the red lilies into the shade of the camphor-tree and laid her hand upon Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s shoulder and said, ‘O my Lord and Treasure of my Soul, rejoice, for we have taught the Queens of Egypt and Ethiopia and Abyssinia a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/148/) [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/) / 148 # Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 148 Then Balkis--The Most Beautiful and Excellent Balkis--went forward through the red lilies into the shade of the camphor-tree and laid her hand upon Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s shoulder and said, ‘O my Lord and Treasure of my Soul, rejoice, for we have taught the Queens of Egypt and Ethiopia and Abyssinia and Persia and India and China with a great and a memorable teaching.’ **Who acts:** Balkis, Lord · **What happens:** go, lay, say, rejoice, teach, shade · **To what, where:** red lilies, hand, shoulder, we, Queens, camphor tree · **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 (Balkis, Lord), 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:pg2781:13:148 # text = Then Balkis--The Most Beautiful and Excellent Balkis--went forward through the red lilies into the shade of the camphor-tree and laid her hand upon Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s shoulder and said, ‘O my Lord and Treasure of my Soul, rejoice, for we have taught the Queens of Egypt and Ethiopia and Abyssinia and Persia and India and China with a great and a memorable teaching.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 Balkis Balkis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 -- -- PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 5 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 nsubj _ _ 6 Beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 Excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 Balkis Balkis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 -- -- PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 forward forward ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 through through ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 lilies lily NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 shade shade NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 camphor camphor NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 upon upon ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 30 Suleiman Suleiman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Daoud Daoud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ’s 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 36 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 40 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 O o INTJ UH _ 43 discourse _ _ 42 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 Treasure Treasure PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 Soul soul ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 rejoice rejoice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 52 for for SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 53 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj:pass _ _ 54 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 taught teach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 parataxis _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 Queens queen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 obj _ _ 58 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 nmod _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 61 Ethiopia Ethiopia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 conj _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 63 Abyssinia Abyssinia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 conj _ _ 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 conj _ _ 66 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 67 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 65 conj _ _ 68 and and CCONJ CC _ 69 cc _ _ 69 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 conj _ _ 70 with with ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 71 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 72 det _ _ 72 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 obl _ _ 73 and and CCONJ CC _ 76 cc _ _ 74 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 76 det _ _ 75 memorable memorable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 76 amod _ _ 76 teaching teaching NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 77 . . PUNCT . _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 78 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Balkis | | | the red lilies | | into the shade of the camphor tree; forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through lily=Initial\_Location into shade=Destination | | 2 | **lay** | past | Balkis *not said here* | Balkis's hand | | Suleiman's shoulder | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon shoulder=Destination | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Balkis *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **rejoice** | infinitive | my Lord and Treasure of my Soul | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · perfect · passive | | we | the Queens of Egypt and Ethiopia and Abyssinia and Persia and India and China | | | with a great | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient queen=Topic | | 6 | **shade** | | | the camphor tree | | | | | nom shade «state 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 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/147/) - next →: [sentence 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/149/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)