Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 1
The Horse, the Dog and the Ox each ask him to come and work like them, and each gets a "Humph!", so the Man makes the Three work double to cover for the lazy Camel, and they are furious.
Who acts: Horse, each, Man · What happens: ask, come, work, get, make, cover · To what, where: Humph, Three work
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 (Horse, each, Man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Horse | det |
| 2 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Dog | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Dog | det |
| 5 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Horse | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Ox | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ox | det |
| 8 | Ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Dog | conj |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ask | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 work | cc |
| 15 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 come | conj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 work | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gets | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gets | cc |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 gets | nsubj |
| 21 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 Humph | det |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Humph | punct |
| 24 | Humph | Humph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 gets | obj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 Humph | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Humph | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 makes | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 makes | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Man | det |
| 30 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 makes | nsubj |
| 31 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 gets | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 work | det |
| 33 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 work | nummod |
| 34 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 makes | obj |
| 35 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 makes | xcomp |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 cover | mark |
| 37 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 double | advcl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 Camel | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Camel | det |
| 40 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Camel | amod |
| 41 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cover | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 furious | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 furious | cc |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 furious | nsubj |
| 45 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 furious | cop |
| 46 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 makes | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | the Horse and the Dog and the Ox | Humph | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Horse and the Dog and the Ox not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | work | infinitive | the Horse and the Dog and the Ox not said here | like Horse | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | present | each | a Humph | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer humph=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | make | present | the Man | the Three work | double property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Product | |||
| 6 | cover | to-infinitive | the Man not said here | for the lazy Camel | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | present | Horse | furious property | tree rules |
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:1.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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