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title: She was Queen of Sabaea-- And he was Asia’s Lord-- But they both of… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: She was Queen of Sabaea-- And he was Asia’s Lord-- But they both of ‘em talked to butterflies When they took their walks abroad! Who acts: Balkis, Sabaea, worlds. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 163

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She was Queen of Sabaea-- And he was Asia’s Lord-- But they both of ‘em talked to butterflies When they took their walks abroad!

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**Who acts:** Balkis, Sabaea, worlds · **What happens:** be, talk, take, walk · **To what, where:** Queen, Lord, walks

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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, Sabaea, worlds), 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:pg2781:13:163
# text = She was Queen of Sabaea-- And he was Asia’s Lord-- But they both of ‘em talked to butterflies When they took their walks abroad!
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Sabaea	Sabaea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	walks	walk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Balkis | Queen and Asia's Lord |  |  |  | of Sabaea | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Sabaea | Asia's Lord |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **talk** | past | worlds *= world* | Queen and Asia's Lord *not said here* |  |  |  | to butterflies | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past | worlds *= world* | worlds's walks |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme |
| 5 | **walk** |  | worlds *= world* |  |  |  |  |  | nom walk «act transitive»: 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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