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title: But Balkis the Most Beautiful never quarrelled with Suleiman-bin-Dao… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But Balkis the Most Beautiful never quarrelled with Suleiman-bin-Daoud. Who acts: Balkis. 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 34

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But Balkis the Most Beautiful never quarrelled with Suleiman-bin-Daoud.

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**Who acts:** Balkis · **What happens:** not quarrell

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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 (Balkis), 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:pg2781:13:34
# text = But Balkis the Most Beautiful never quarrelled with Suleiman-bin-Daoud.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **quarrell** | past | Balkis |  |  |  |  | with Suleiman 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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