Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 5
A "Parsee" (today usually spelled Parsi) is one of the Parsi people, whose families came to India from Persia (Iran) long ago; in this story he lives on "an uninhabited island" (an island where nobody lives) on the shores of the Red Sea.
Who acts: Parsee, families, nobody · What happens: spell, be, come, live · To what, where: Parsee, one, India, Persia, story
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 (Parsee, families, nobody), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Parsee | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Parsee | punct |
| 3 | Parsee | parsee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Parsee | punct |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 spelled | punct |
| 6 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spelled | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 8 spelled | advmod |
| 8 | spelled | spell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Parsee | acl |
| 9 | Parsi | parsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 spelled | xcomp |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 spelled | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 15 | Parsi | parsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 people | compound |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 people | punct |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 families | nmod:poss |
| 19 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 people | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 India | case |
| 22 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 Persia | case |
| 24 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 Iran | punct |
| 26 | Iran | Iran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Persia | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 Iran | punct |
| 28 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 ago | advmod |
| 29 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 story | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 story | case |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 story | det |
| 33 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lives | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 lives | nsubj |
| 35 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | parataxis |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 island | case |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 island | punct |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 island | det |
| 39 | uninhabited | uninhabited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 island | amod |
| 40 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lives | obl |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 island | punct |
| 42 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 island | punct |
| 43 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 island | det |
| 44 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 island | appos |
| 45 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 47 lives | advmod |
| 46 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 47 lives | nsubj |
| 47 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 island | acl:relcl |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 island | punct |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 shores | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 shores | det |
| 51 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 lives | obl |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 Sea | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 Sea | det |
| 54 | Red | Red | PROPN | _ | 55 Sea | flat |
| 55 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 shores | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spell | participle | a Parsee not said here | today | usually property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | present | a Parsee | one | of the Parsi people | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | past | families | India | Persia | ago property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to india=Initial_Location from persia=Destination | ||
| 4 | live | present | Parsee | this story | on a uninhabited island; on the shores of the Red Sea | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in story=Location | |||
| 5 | live | present | nobody | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:5.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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