Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 12
Then the Parsee came down from his palm-tree and put the stove on its legs and recited the following Sloka, which, as you have not heard, I will now proceed to relate:--
Who acts: Parsee, you, Sloka · What happens: come down, put, recite, follow, not hear, proceed · To what, where: palm tree, stove, legs
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 (Parsee, you, Sloka), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Parsee | det |
| 3 | Parsee | Parsee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tree | nmod:poss |
| 8 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 palm | punct |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stove | det |
| 14 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 legs | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 legs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 put | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 recited | cc |
| 19 | recited | recite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Sloka | det |
| 21 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 Sloka | case |
| 22 | Sloka | Sloka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 proceed | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 proceed | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 proceed | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 which | punct |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 heard | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 heard | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 heard | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 heard | advmod |
| 30 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 proceed | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 heard | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 proceed | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 proceed | aux |
| 34 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 proceed | advmod |
| 35 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 recited | ccomp |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 relate | mark |
| 37 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 proceed | xcomp |
| 38 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 -- | punct |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | the Parsee | Parsee's palm tree | then | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the Parsee not said here | the stove | stove's legs | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent stove=Theme on leg=Destination | |||
| 3 | recite | past | the Parsee not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | not hear | present · perfect | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | proceed | future | the Sloka | now | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | relate | to-infinitive | the Sloka not said here | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: 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.
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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