Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 1

ONCE upon a time, on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour.

Who acts: hat · What happens: live, reflect, ray · To what, where: Parsee, hat, rays, more oriental splendour, sun

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ONCE	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 lived	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ONCE	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 island	punct
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 island	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 island	det
8	uninhabited	uninhabited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 island	amod
9	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	appos
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 shores	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shores	det
12	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 island	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 Sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Sea	det
15	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Sea	compound
16	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 shores	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ONCE	punct
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 lived	expl
19	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 Parsee	det
21	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 lived	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 hat	case
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	24 hat	nmod:poss
24	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lived	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rays	det
26	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 reflected	nsubj:pass
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 sun	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sun	det
29	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rays	nmod
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 reflected	aux:pass
31	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 hat	acl:relcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	38 splendour	case
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 splendour	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 splendour	punct
35	than	than	ADP	_	38 splendour	case
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 than	punct
37	oriental	oriental	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 splendour	compound
38	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reflected	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a Parsee	hat; there	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme parsee=Location
2	reflect	past · passive	hat not said here	the rays of the sun	more oriental splendour		tree rules
3	ray			the sun			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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.

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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