--- title: And Balkis the Queen, beautiful and tall, looked up into Suleiman-bi… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: And Balkis the Queen, beautiful and tall, looked up into Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s eyes and put her head a little on one side, just like the Butterfly, and said, ‘First, O my Lord, because I loved you; and secondly, O my Lord, because I know what women-folk are.’ Who acts: Balkis, I, women folk. 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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 (Balkis, I, women folk), 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:pg2781:13:158 # text = And Balkis the Queen, beautiful and tall, looked up into Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s eyes and put her head a little on one side, just like the Butterfly, and said, ‘First, O my Lord, because I loved you; and secondly, O my Lord, because I know what women-folk are.’ 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 Balkis Balkis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 13 Suleiman Suleiman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Daoud Daoud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’s 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 19 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 just just ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Butterfly Butterfly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 First first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 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 39 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 because because SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 46 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 48 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ; ; PUNCT : _ 51 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 secondly secondly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 53 O o INTJ UH _ 55 discourse _ _ 54 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 57 because because SCONJ IN _ 59 mark _ _ 58 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 59 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 60 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 59 ccomp _ _ 61 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 62 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 61 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nsubj _ _ 64 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 60 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 66 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look up** | past | Balkis | | | | | into Suleiman's eyes; secondly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme | | 2 | **put** | infinitive | Balkis *not said here* | Balkis's head | | one side | | like the Butterfly; a little *obl:unmarked* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on side=Destination | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **love** | past | I | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 5 | **know** | present | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** | present | women folk | | | | | | 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 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/157/) - next →: [sentence 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/159/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)