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title: But the Parsee came down from his palm-tree, wearing his hat, from w… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Parsee came down from his palm-tree, wearing his hat, from which the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour, packed up his cooking-stove, and went away in the direction of Orotavo, Amygdala, the Upland Meadows of Anantarivo, and the Marshes of Sonaput. Who acts: Parse
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# Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 33

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But the Parsee came down from his palm-tree, wearing his hat, from which the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour, packed up his cooking-stove, and went away in the direction of Orotavo, Amygdala, the Upland Meadows of Anantarivo, and the Marshes of Sonaput.

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**Who acts:** Parsee · **What happens:** come down, wear, reflect, pack up, go away, ray · **To what, where:** Marshes, palm tree, hat, rays, more oriental splendour, cooking stove

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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 (Parsee), 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:pg2781:4:33
# text = But the Parsee came down from his palm-tree, wearing his hat, from which the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour, packed up his cooking-stove, and went away in the direction of Orotavo, Amygdala, the Upland Meadows of Anantarivo, and the Marshes of Sonaput.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	oriental	oriental	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
36	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
42	away	away	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Orotavo	Orotavo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	Amygdala	Amygdala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	Upland	Upland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	Meadows	Meadows	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	Anantarivo	Anantarivo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	Marshes	Marsh	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	Sonaput	Sonaput	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past | the Parsee | the Marshes of Sonaput |  | Parsee's palm tree |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund | the Parsee *not said here* | Parsee's hat |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme |
| 3 | **reflect** | past · passive |  | the rays of the sun |  | more oriental splendour |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pack up** | participle |  | Parsee's cooking stove |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go away** | past | the Parsee *not said here* |  |  | the direction of Orotavo and the Upland Meadows of Anantarivo |  | away *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location |
| 6 | **ray** |  |  | the sun |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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