--- title: So he went on between the lilies and the loquats and the roses and t… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: So he went on between the lilies and the loquats and the roses and the cannas and the heavy-scented ginger-plants that grew in the garden, till he came to the great camphor-tree that was called the Camphor Tree of Suleiman-bin-Daoud. Who acts: Suleiman, scented ginger plants. 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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, scented ginger plants), 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:pg2781:13:45 # text = So he went on between the lilies and the loquats and the roses and the cannas and the heavy-scented ginger-plants that grew in the garden, till he came to the great camphor-tree that was called the Camphor Tree of Suleiman-bin-Daoud. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 between between ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lilies lily NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 loquats loquat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 roses rose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cannas canna NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 19 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 scented scent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 22 ginger ginger NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 till till SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 36 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 37 camphor camphor NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl:relcl _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 Camphor Camphor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 Tree Tree PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 xcomp _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 47 Suleiman Suleiman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 50 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 Daoud Daoud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go on** | past | Suleiman | | | the lilies and the loquats and the roses and the cannas and the scented ginger plants | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between lily=Location | | 2 | **scent** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grow** | past | the scented ginger plants | | | the garden | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location | | 4 | **come** | past | Suleiman | | | the great camphor tree | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **call** | past · passive | | the great camphor tree | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/46/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)