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title: But Balkis hid among the tall irises and the spotted bamboos and the… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But Balkis hid among the tall irises and the spotted bamboos and the red lillies behind the camphor-tree, so as to be near her own true love, 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 pragmat
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 46

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But Balkis hid among the tall irises and the spotted bamboos and the red lillies behind the camphor-tree, so as to be near her own true love, Suleiman-bin-Daoud.

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**Who acts:** Balkis · **What happens:** hide, spot, be · **To what, where:** camphor tree, own true love

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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:pg2781:13:46
# text = But Balkis hid among the tall irises and the spotted bamboos and the red lillies behind the camphor-tree, so as to be near her own true love, Suleiman-bin-Daoud.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	irises	iris	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	spotted	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	bamboos	bamboo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lillies	lilly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
16	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	camphor	camphor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
26	near	near	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | Balkis |  |  | the camphor tree |  | among the tall irises and the spotted bamboos and the red lillies | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among iris=Location |
| 2 | **spot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Balkis's own true love and 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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