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title: THIS Uninhabited Island Is off Cape Gardafui, By the Beaches of Soco… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: THIS Uninhabited Island Is off Cape Gardafui, By the Beaches of Socotra And the Pink Arabian Sea: But it’s hot--too hot from Suez For the likes of you and me Ever to go In a P. and O. Who acts: Uninhabited Island, Sea. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Rhinoceros Got His Sk
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# Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 34

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THIS Uninhabited Island Is off Cape Gardafui, By the Beaches of Socotra And the Pink Arabian Sea: But it’s hot--too hot from Suez For the likes of you and me Ever to go In a P. and O.

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**Who acts:** Uninhabited Island, Sea · **What happens:** be, go · **To what, where:** Suez, P.

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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 (Uninhabited Island, Sea), 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:pg2781:4:34
# text = THIS Uninhabited Island Is off Cape Gardafui, By the Beaches of Socotra And the Pink Arabian Sea: But it’s hot--too hot from Suez For the likes of you and me Ever to go In a P. and O.
1	THIS	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Uninhabited	Uninhabited	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
7	Gardafui	Gardafui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	By	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Socotra	Socotra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Arabian	Arabian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Suez	Suez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	For	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	likes	like	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	conj	_	_
36	Ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	38	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
39	In	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	P.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Uninhabited Island |  |  |  |  | off Cape Gardafui | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Sea |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Sea *not said here* |  |  | Suez |  | for the likes of you | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a P. and O | ever |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in p.=Location |

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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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