--- title: Some of the wives were nice, but some were simply horrid, and the ho… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Some of the wives were nice, but some were simply horrid, and the horrid ones quarrelled with the nice ones and made them horrid too, and then they would all quarrel with Suleiman-bin-Daoud, and that was horrid for him. Who acts: wives, some, wifes, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wives, some, wifes, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2781:13:33 # text = Some of the wives were nice, but some were simply horrid, and the horrid ones quarrelled with the nice ones and made them horrid too, and then they would all quarrel with Suleiman-bin-Daoud, and that was horrid for him. 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 wives wife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 simply simply ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 horrid horrid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 horrid horrid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 18 quarrelled quarrell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 horrid horrid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 too too ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 all all ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 quarrel quarrel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 36 Suleiman Suleiman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 Daoud Daoud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 45 nsubj _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 horrid horrid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | some wives | | | | | nice *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | some | | | | | horrid, simply *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **quarrell** | participle | | the horrid ones *not said here* | | | | with the nice ones | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | past | some wives *not said here* | wifes *= wife* | | | | horrid *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 5 | **quarrel** | would | wifes *= wife* | | | | then | with Suleiman bin Daoud; all *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with daoud=Co-Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | that | | | | | for part; horrid *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/34/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)