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title: Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud fell flat on his face and said, ‘O Animal! — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud fell flat on his face and said, ‘O Animal! Who acts: Suleiman. 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 25

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Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud fell flat on his face and said, ‘O Animal!

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**Who acts:** Suleiman · **What happens:** fall, say · **To what, where:** face · **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), 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:pg2781:13:25
# text = Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud fell flat on his face and said, ‘O Animal!
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	2	flat	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	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	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	17	case	_	_
17	Animal	Animal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Suleiman |  |  | Suleiman's face | then | flat *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Suleiman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Animal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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