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title: There are three hundred and fifty-five stories about Suleiman-bin-Da… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: There are three hundred and fifty-five stories about Suleiman-bin-Daoud; but this is not one of them. Who acts: hundred stories, this. 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 2

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There are three hundred and fifty-five stories about Suleiman-bin-Daoud; but this is not one of them.

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**Who acts:** hundred stories, this · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** one

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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 (hundred stories, this), 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:pg2781:13:2
# text = There are three hundred and fifty-five stories about Suleiman-bin-Daoud; but this is not one of them.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
9	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | hundred stories about Suleiman Daoud |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | this | one |  |  |  | of Daoud | 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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