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title: And Balkis the Most Beautiful said, ‘O my Lord and Treasure of my So… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And Balkis the Most Beautiful said, ‘O my Lord and Treasure of my Soul, what will you do?’ Who acts: Balkis, Lord. 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 43

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And Balkis the Most Beautiful said, ‘O my Lord and Treasure of my Soul, what will you do?’

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**Who acts:** Balkis, Lord · **What happens:** say, do · **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), 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:pg2781:13:43
# text = And Balkis the Most Beautiful said, ‘O my Lord and Treasure of my Soul, what will you do?’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	Beautiful	Beautiful	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Treasure	Treasure	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Soul	Soul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | future | my Lord of my Soul and Treasure |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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