Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 10
The Camel came by "chewing milkweed most 'scruciating idle" and laughed at them.
Who acts: Camel · What happens: come, chew, scruciat, laugh · To what, where: milkweed
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Camel | det |
| 2 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 chewing | mark |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 chewing | punct |
| 6 | chewing | chew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 7 | milkweed | milkweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chewing | obj |
| 8 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 milkweed | appos |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 scruciating | punct |
| 10 | scruciating | scruciat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 most | advcl |
| 11 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 scruciating | xcomp |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 idle | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 laughed | cc |
| 14 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 laughed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Camel | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | chew in a quote | gerund | the Camel not said here | milkweed | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milkweed=Patient | ||||
| 3 | scruciat in a quote | gerund | the Camel not said here | idle property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | laugh | past | the Camel not said here | at animals = animal | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:10.
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): no change. 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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