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title: Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud rose up from his seat under the camphor-tree… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud rose up from his seat under the camphor-tree, and stretched his arms and rejoiced and said, ‘O my Lady and Sweetener of my Days, know that if I had made a magic against my Queens for the sake of pride or anger, as I made that feast for all the animals, I should certainly have
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 155

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Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud rose up from his seat under the camphor-tree, and stretched his arms and rejoiced and said, ‘O my Lady and Sweetener of my Days, know that if I had made a magic against my Queens for the sake of pride or anger, as I made that feast for all the animals, I should certainly have been put to shame.

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**Who acts:** Suleiman, I · **What happens:** rise up, stretch, rejoice, say, know, make · **To what, where:** seat, arms, magic, feast, I · **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 (Suleiman, I), 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:pg2781:13:155
# text = Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud rose up from his seat under the camphor-tree, and stretched his arms and rejoiced and said, ‘O my Lady and Sweetener of my Days, know that if I had made a magic against my Queens for the sake of pride or anger, as I made that feast for all the animals, I should certainly have been put to shame.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	camphor	camphor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Sweetener	Sweetener	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	Days	Day	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	ccomp	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	against	against	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	Queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
53	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
57	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	parataxis	_	_
59	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	60	det	_	_
60	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
61	for	for	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
62	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	64	det:predet	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	71	punct	_	_
66	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	71	nsubj	_	_
67	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	71	aux	_	_
68	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	71	advmod	_	_
69	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	71	aux	_	_
70	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	71	aux:pass	_	_
71	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
72	to	to	PART	TO	_	73	mark	_	_
73	shame	shame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	71	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise up** | past | Suleiman |  |  | Suleiman's seat | then | under the camphor tree | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
| 2 | **stretch** | past | Suleiman *not said here* | Suleiman's arms |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 3 | **rejoice** | past | Suleiman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Suleiman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **know** | infinitive | Suleiman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | I | a magic |  |  |  | against my Queens for the sake of pride or anger | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product |
| 7 | **make** | past | I | that feast |  |  |  | for all animals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent feast=Product for animal=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **put** | should · perfect · passive |  | I |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **shame** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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