--- title: A "Parsee" (today usually spelled Parsi) is one of the Parsi people,… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rh… · tree and pragmatics description: A "Parsee" (today usually spelled Parsi) is one of the Parsi people, whose families came to India from Persia (Iran) long ago; in this story he lives on "an uninhabited island" (an island where nobody lives) on the shores of the Red Sea. Who acts: Parsee, families, nobody. 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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, families, nobody), 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:5 # text = A "Parsee" (today usually spelled Parsi) is one of the Parsi people, whose families came to India from Persia (Iran) long ago; in this story he lives on "an uninhabited island" (an island where nobody lives) on the shores of the Red Sea. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 Parsee parsee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 6 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 usually usually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 spelled spell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 9 Parsi parsi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Parsi parsi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Iran Iran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:appos 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 28 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 29 ago ago ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 uninhabited uninhabited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 43 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ _ 45 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 47 advmod _ _ 46 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 47 nsubj _ _ 47 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 acl:relcl _ _ 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 49 on on ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 shores shore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 54 Red Red PROPN NNP _ 55 flat _ _ 55 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nmod _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spell** | participle | | a Parsee *not said here* | | | today | usually *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | a Parsee | one | | | | of the Parsi people | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | past | families | | India | Persia | | ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to india=Initial\_Location from persia=Destination | | 4 | **live** | present | Parsee | | | this story | | on a uninhabited island; on the shores of the Red Sea | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in story=Location | | 5 | **live** | present | nobody | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: 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. **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:5`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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), 3:…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/4/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/)