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title: He married nine hundred and ninety-nine wives, besides the Most Beau… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: He married nine hundred and ninety-nine wives, besides the Most Beautiful Balkis; and they all lived in a great golden palace in the middle of a lovely garden with fountains. Who acts: part, wifes. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped, with its dependency tr
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 31

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He married nine hundred and ninety-nine wives, besides the Most Beautiful Balkis; and they all lived in a great golden palace in the middle of a lovely garden with fountains.

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**Who acts:** part, wifes · **What happens:** marry, live · **To what, where:** hundred nine wives, great golden palace

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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 (part, wifes), 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:pg2781:13:31
# text = He married nine hundred and ninety-nine wives, besides the Most Beautiful Balkis; and they all lived in a great golden palace in the middle of a lovely garden with fountains.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
14	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past | part | hundred nine wives |  |  |  | besides the Most Beautiful Balkis | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | past | wifes *= wife* |  |  | a great golden palace in the middle of a lovely garden with fountains |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |

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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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