--- title: And Suleiman-bin-Daoud said, ‘O my Lady and Content of my Heart, I s… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: And Suleiman-bin-Daoud said, ‘O my Lady and Content of my Heart, I shall continue to endure my fate at the hands of these nine hundred and ninety-nine Queens who vex me with their continual quarrelling.’ Who acts: Suleiman, I, hundred nine Queens, my. 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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 (Suleiman, I, hundred nine Queens, my), 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:pg2781:13:44 # text = And Suleiman-bin-Daoud said, ‘O my Lady and Content of my Heart, I shall continue to endure my fate at the hands of these nine hundred and ninety-nine Queens who vex me with their continual quarrelling.’ 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 Suleiman Suleiman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Daoud Daoud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 O o INTJ UH _ 12 discourse _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 Lady Lady PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 ccomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Content Content PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 Heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 continue continue VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 endure endure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 30 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 32 nsubj _ _ 31 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 compound _ _ 32 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 ninety ninety NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 Queens queen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 vex vex VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 continual continual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 quarrelling quarrelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Suleiman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **continue** | shall | I | | | | | | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **endure** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my fate | | the hands of hundred nine Queens | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fate=Circumstance | | 4 | **vex** | present | hundred nine Queens | me | | | | with Lady's continual quarrelling | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | | 5 | **fate** | | my | | | | | | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/45/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)