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title: And she said to him, ‘O my Lord and Light of my Eyes, turn the ring… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And she said to him, ‘O my Lord and Light of my Eyes, turn the ring upon your finger and show these Queens of Egypt and Mesopotamia and Persia and China that you are the great and terrible King.’ Who acts: Balkis, Lord, you. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stam
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 40

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And she said to him, ‘O my Lord and Light of my Eyes, turn the ring upon your finger and show these Queens of Egypt and Mesopotamia and Persia and China that you are the great and terrible King.’

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**Who acts:** Balkis, Lord, you · **What happens:** say, turn, show, be · **To what, where:** Suleiman, ring, Queens · **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 (Balkis, Lord, you), 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:pg2781:13:40
# text = And she said to him, ‘O my Lord and Light of my Eyes, turn the ring upon your finger and show these Queens of Egypt and Mesopotamia and Persia and China that you are the great and terrible King.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Light	Light	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
25	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	Queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	Mesopotamia	Mesopotamia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
42	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Balkis |  | Suleiman |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **turn** | infinitive | my Lord of my Eyes and Light | the ring |  |  |  | upon your finger | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | infinitive | my Lord of my Eyes and Light *not said here* |  | this Queens of Egypt and Mesopotamia and Persia and China |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | King *vocative*; great *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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