Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 0

On a lonely island by the Red Sea lives a Parsee man with nothing but a shining hat, a knife and a cooking-stove, and one day he bakes himself a gigantic cake.

Who acts: man · What happens: live, bake · To what, where: Parsee man, lonely island, man

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 island	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 island	det
3	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 island	amod
4	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lives	obl
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 Sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sea	det
7	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Sea	flat
8	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 island	nmod
9	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	Parsee	parsee	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 man	compound
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lives	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 nothing	case
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 man	nmod
15	but	but	ADP	_	18 hat	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hat	det
17	shining	shine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hat	amod
18	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nothing	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knife	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 knife	det
21	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hat	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stove	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 stove	det
24	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stove	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 cooking	punct
26	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hat	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bakes	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bakes	cc
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 day	nummod
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bakes	obl:unmarked
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bakes	nsubj
32	bakes	bake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lives	conj
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 bakes	obj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cake	det
35	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 cake	amod
36	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bakes	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lives	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present		a Parsee man		a lonely island by the Red Sea		with nothing	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	bake	present	man	man			day		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary cake=Product

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:076-justso-rhinoceros-skin.lesson:0.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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