Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 11
The Parsee's rhyme: "Them that takes cakes / Which the Parsee-man bakes / Makes dreadful mistakes." ("Them that takes" is old country grammar for "those who take".)
Who acts: rhyme, Parsee man, Parsee · What happens: take, bake, make, be, rhyme · To what, where: cakes, dreadful mistakes, old country grammar · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rhyme, Parsee man, Parsee), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Parsee | det |
| 2 | Parsee | parsee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rhyme | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Parsee | case |
| 4 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 takes | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 takes | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 takes | punct |
| 7 | Them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 takes | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 takes | nsubj |
| 9 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 takes | obj |
| 11 | / | / | SYM | _ | 17 bakes | punct |
| 12 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 bakes | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 14 | Parsee | parsee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 man | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Parsee | punct |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bakes | nsubj |
| 17 | bakes | bake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cakes | conj |
| 18 | / | / | SYM | _ | 19 Makes | punct |
| 19 | Makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bakes | conj |
| 20 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mistakes | amod |
| 21 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Makes | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 bakes | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 bakes | punct |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 Them | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Them | punct |
| 26 | Them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 takes | conj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 takes | nsubj |
| 28 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 Them | acl:relcl |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 grammar | punct |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 grammar | cop |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 grammar | amod |
| 32 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 grammar | compound |
| 33 | grammar | grammar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 takes | parataxis |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 those | case |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 those | punct |
| 36 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 33 grammar | nmod |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 take | nsubj |
| 38 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 those | acl:relcl |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 take | punct |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 grammar | punct |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | present | the Parsee's rhyme | cakes and bakes | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent cake=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | bake in a quote | the Parsee man | cakes and bakes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | the Parsee man not said here | dreadful mistakes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | present | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | old country grammar | for those | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | take in a quote | present | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | rhyme | the Parsee | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: 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.
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:11.
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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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