Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 16

Real biology: a camel's hump is a store of fat, not water; when food is short the camel lives on that fat, and the hump goes floppy and small.

Who acts: hump, food, camel · What happens: be, live, go · To what, where: store, fat

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 (hump, food, 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 biology	amod
2	biology	biology	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 store	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 camel	det
5	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hump	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 camel	case
7	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 store	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 store	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 store	det
10	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 biology	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 fat	case
12	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 store	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 water	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 water	advmod
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fat	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 short	punct
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 short	mark
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 short	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 short	cop
20	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lives	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 camel	det
22	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lives	nsubj
23	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 biology	parataxis
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 fat	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 fat	det
26	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lives	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 goes	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 goes	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hump	det
30	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 goes	nsubj
31	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 lives	conj
32	floppy	floppy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 goes	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 small	cc
34	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 floppy	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 biology	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a camel's hump	a store		of fat and water	tree rules
2	is	present	food			short property	tree rules
3	live	present	the camel		that fat		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fat=Location
4	go	present	the hump			floppy property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:16.

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 ×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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