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title: Balkis--The tender and Most Lovely Balkis--said, ‘O my Lord and Rege… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Balkis--The tender and Most Lovely Balkis--said, ‘O my Lord and Regent of my Existence, I hid behind the camphor-tree and saw it all. Who acts: Balkis, I, my. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 152

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Balkis--The tender and Most Lovely Balkis--said, ‘O my Lord and Regent of my Existence, I hid behind the camphor-tree and saw it all.

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**Who acts:** Balkis, I, my · **What happens:** say, hide, see, exist · **To what, where:** Lord, camphor tree, Existence · **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, I, my), 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:pg2781:13:152
# text = Balkis--The tender and Most Lovely Balkis--said, ‘O my Lord and Regent of my Existence, I hid behind the camphor-tree and saw it all.
1	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
7	Lovely	Lovely	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	compound	_	_
8	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Regent	Regent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	Existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
24	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	camphor	camphor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Balkis | my Lord of my Existence and Regent |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hide** | past | I |  |  | the camphor tree |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind tree=Location |
| 3 | **see** | past | I *not said here* | Existence |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **exist** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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