Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 20

The poem at the end says the island is "off Cape Gardafui, / By the Beaches of Socotra": real places at the tip of the Horn of Africa.

Who acts: poem, island · What happens: say, be · 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 (poem, island), 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 poem	det
2	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 end	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 end	det
5	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poem	nmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 island	det
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Gardafui	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Gardafui	cop
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Gardafui	punct
11	off	off	ADP	_	13 Gardafui	case
12	Cape	Cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Gardafui	flat
13	Gardafui	Gardafui	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Beaches	punct
15	/	/	PUNCT	_	18 Beaches	punct
16	By	by	ADP	_	18 Beaches	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Beaches	det
18	Beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Gardafui	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Socotra	case
20	Socotra	Socotra	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Beaches	nmod
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Socotra	punct
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 places	punct
23	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 places	amod
24	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Beaches	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 tip	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tip	det
27	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 places	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Horn	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Horn	det
30	Horn	horn	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 tip	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Africa	case
32	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Horn	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the poem at the end						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	the island					off Cape Gardafui	tree rules

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:20.

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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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