Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 28
Then he ran to the palm-tree and rubbed and rubbed and rubbed himself against it.
Who acts: Rhinoceros · What happens: run, rub · To what, where: Rhinoceros, water
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 (Rhinoceros), 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 | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 6 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 palm | punct |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rubbed | cc |
| 10 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ran | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rubbed | cc |
| 12 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rubbed | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rubbed | cc |
| 14 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 rubbed | obj |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rubbed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Rhinoceros | then | to the palm tree result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result | |||
| 2 | rub | participle | Rhinoceros not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rub | participle | Rhinoceros not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rub | past | Rhinoceros not said here | Rhinoceros | water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme against it=Destination |
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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