--- title: On a lonely island by the Red Sea lives a Parsee man with nothing bu… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rh… · tree and pragmatics description: On a lonely island by the Red Sea lives a Parsee man with nothing but a shining hat, a knife and a cooking-stove, and one day he bakes himself a gigantic cake. Who acts: man. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:076-justso-rhinoceros-skin.lesson:0 # text = On a lonely island by the Red Sea lives a Parsee man with nothing but a shining hat, a knife and a cooking-stove, and one day he bakes himself a gigantic cake. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 076-justso-rhinoceros-skin.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj 5 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 8 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Parsee parsee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 12 nmod _ _ 15 but but ADP IN _ 18 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 shining shine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 cooking cooking NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 stove stove NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 bakes bake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 33 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 32 obj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 gigantic gigantic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | | a Parsee man | | a lonely island by the Red Sea | | with nothing | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | | 2 | **bake** | present | man | man | | | day | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary cake=Product | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:0`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2:…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/75-justso-camel-hump/20/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/)