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title: Them that takes cakes Which the Parsee-man bakes Makes dreadful mist… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Them that takes cakes Which the Parsee-man bakes Makes dreadful mistakes. Who acts: Them, Parsee man. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 13

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Them that takes cakes Which the Parsee-man bakes Makes dreadful mistakes.

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**Who acts:** Them, Parsee man · **What happens:** take, bake · **To what, where:** cakes

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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 (Them, Parsee man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:4:13
# text = Them that takes cakes Which the Parsee-man bakes Makes dreadful mistakes.
1	Them	them	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bakes	bake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	Makes	make	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | Them | cakes |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme |
| 2 | **bake** | present | the Parsee man | cakes |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary make=Product |

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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.

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**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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