Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 15
Because, five weeks later, there was a heat wave in the Red Sea, and everybody took off all the clothes they had.
Who acts: everybody, clothes · What happens: be, have · To what, where: clothes
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 (everybody, clothes), 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 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 was | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Because | punct |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 weeks | nummod |
| 4 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 later | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 was | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 later | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wave | det |
| 10 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wave | compound |
| 11 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sea | det |
| 14 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sea | compound |
| 15 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wave | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 18 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 took | compound:prt |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 clothes | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 clothes | det |
| 23 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 took | obj |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everybody | take property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | clothes | all clothes not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=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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