Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 11
A "Djinn" (genie) is a magic spirit from Arabian stories; this one travels "rolling in a cloud of dust", and calls the Camel "My long and bubbling friend" and "Bubbles", because camels grumble and bubble.
Who acts: Djinn, this, Camel, camels · What happens: be, travel, roll, call, grumble, bubble · To what, where: magic spirit, Arabian stories, cloud, dust · 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 (Djinn, this, Camel, camels), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Djinn | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Djinn | punct |
| 3 | Djinn | djinn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 spirit | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Djinn | punct |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 genie | punct |
| 6 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Djinn | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 genie | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 spirit | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 spirit | det |
| 10 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spirit | compound |
| 11 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 stories | case |
| 13 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stories | amod |
| 14 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spirit | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 travels | punct |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 travels | nsubj |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 this | flat |
| 18 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 spirit | parataxis |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 rolling | punct |
| 20 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 travels | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 cloud | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cloud | det |
| 23 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rolling | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 dust | case |
| 25 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cloud | nmod |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 rolling | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 calls | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 calls | cc |
| 29 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 travels | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Camel | det |
| 31 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 calls | obj |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 friend | punct |
| 33 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 friend | nmod:poss |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 friend | amod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bubbling | cc |
| 36 | bubbling | bubble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 long | conj |
| 37 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Camel | appos |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 friend | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Bubbles | cc |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 Bubbles | punct |
| 41 | Bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 friend | conj |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 Bubbles | punct |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 grumble | punct |
| 44 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 46 grumble | mark |
| 45 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 grumble | nsubj |
| 46 | grumble | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 calls | advcl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 bubble | cc |
| 48 | bubble | bubble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 grumble | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spirit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a Djinn | a magic spirit | Arabian stories | tree rules | |||
| 2 | travel | present | this | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | roll in a quote | gerund | this not said here | a cloud of dust | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | call speech: assert | present | the Camel | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | grumble speech: other | present | camels | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | bubble | present | camels not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 7 | cloud in a quote | dust | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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:11.
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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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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