--- title: The Parsee takes his revenge: he rubs the skin full of stale, tickly… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rh… · tree and pragmatics description: The Parsee takes his revenge: he rubs the skin full of stale, tickly cake-crumbs, and when the Rhino buttons it back on, it itches so badly that he rubs against the palm tree until his skin is pushed into great folds. Who acts: Parsee, Rhino, skin. 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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 (Parsee, Rhino, skin), 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:3 # text = The Parsee takes his revenge: he rubs the skin full of stale, tickly cake-crumbs, and when the Rhino buttons it back on, it itches so badly that he rubs against the palm tree until his skin is pushed into great folds. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Parsee parsee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 revenge revenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 rubs rub VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 13 stale stale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 tickly tickly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 16 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 crumbs crumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det 23 Rhino Rhino PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 buttons button VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 26 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 on on ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 itches itch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 rubs rub VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 36 against against ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 until until SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 advcl _ _ 45 into into ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 folds fold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | the Parsee | Parsee's revenge | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme | | 2 | **rub** | present | Parsee | the skin | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | | 3 | **button** | present | the Rhino | skin | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **itch** | present | skin | | | | | badly *property* | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **rub** | present | Rhino | | | the palm tree | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent against tree=Destination | | 6 | **push** | present · passive | | Rhino's skin | | great folds | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into fold=Destination | | 7 | **revenge** | | Parsee | | | | | | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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