Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 0

When the world was brand new and the animals were just starting to work for Man, the Camel lived alone in the Howling Desert, munching thorns, and to everyone who spoke to him he said only "Humph!"

Who acts: world, animals, Camel · What happens: be, start, work, live, munch, speak · To what, where: Howling Desert, thorns, Camel, Humph, everyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, animals, Camel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 new	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 world	det
3	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 new	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 new	cop
5	brand	brand	ADV	_	6 new	advmod
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lived	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 starting	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animals	det
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 starting	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 starting	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 starting	advmod
12	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 new	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 work	mark
14	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 starting	xcomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 Man	case
16	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 work	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lived	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Camel	det
19	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lived	nsubj
20	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 lived	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 Desert	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Desert	det
24	Howling	Howling	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Desert	compound
25	Desert	Desert	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 lived	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 munching	punct
27	munching	munch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 lived	advcl
28	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 munching	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 everyone	case
32	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	38 said	obl
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 spoke	nsubj
34	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 everyone	acl:relcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 spoke	obl
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 said	nsubj
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lived	conj
39	only	only	ADV	_	41 Humph	advmod
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 Humph	punct
41	Humph	Humph	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 said	obj
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	41 Humph	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 Humph	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the world				brand, new property	tree rules
2	start	past · progressive	the animals					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	work	to-infinitive	the animals not said here				for Man	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for man=Beneficiary
4	live	past	the Camel			the Howling Desert	alone property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location
5	munch	gerund	the Camel not said here	thorns				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thorn=Patient
6	speak speech: other	past			Camel			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
7	say speech: assert	past	Camel	Humph	everyone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent humph=Topic to everyone=Recipient

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, 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:075-justso-camel-hump.lesson:0.

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 ×1, 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.

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