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title: Suleiman-bin-Daoud was very surprised and said, ‘O Animal, who are y… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Suleiman-bin-Daoud was very surprised and said, ‘O Animal, who are you?’ Who acts: Suleiman, you. 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 18

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Suleiman-bin-Daoud was very surprised and said, ‘O Animal, who are you?’

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**Who acts:** Suleiman, you · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** Animal · **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, you), 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:pg2781:13:18
# text = Suleiman-bin-Daoud was very surprised and said, ‘O Animal, who are you?’
1	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	14	case	_	_
14	Animal	Animal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Suleiman |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Suleiman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Animal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | you | Animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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