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title: Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud forgot his nine hundred and ninety-nine both… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud forgot his nine hundred and ninety-nine bothersome wives, and laughed, till the camphor-tree shook, at the Butterfly’s boast. Who acts: Suleiman, Butterfly. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 50

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Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud forgot his nine hundred and ninety-nine bothersome wives, and laughed, till the camphor-tree shook, at the Butterfly’s boast.

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**Who acts:** Suleiman, Butterfly · **What happens:** forget, laugh, boast · **To what, where:** nine hundred

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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 (Suleiman, Butterfly), 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:pg2781:13:50
# text = Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud forgot his nine hundred and ninety-nine bothersome wives, and laughed, till the camphor-tree shook, at the Butterfly’s boast.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
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	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	bothersome	bothersome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	till	till	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	camphor	camphor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	shook	shook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **forget** | past | Suleiman | Suleiman's nine hundred  nine bothersome wives |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** | past | Suleiman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **boast** |  | the Butterfly |  |  |  |  |  | nom boast «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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