Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 17

Real biology: camels can go many days without drinking because their bodies waste very little water, and a thirsty camel can gulp around a hundred litres in a few minutes.

Who acts: camels, bodies, thirsty camel · What happens: go, drink, waste, gulp · To what, where: little water, hundred litres

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 (camels, bodies, thirsty 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	_	6 go	punct
4	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 biology	appos
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	obl:unmarked
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 drinking	mark
10	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 go	advcl
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 waste	mark
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bodies	nmod:poss
13	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 waste	nsubj
14	waste	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	advcl
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 little	advmod
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 water	amod
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 waste	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gulp	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gulp	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 camel	det
21	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 camel	amod
22	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gulp	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 gulp	aux
24	gulp	gulp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj
25	around	around	ADP	_	28 litres	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hundred	det
27	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 litres	nummod
28	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gulp	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 minutes	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 minutes	det
31	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 minutes	amod
32	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gulp	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 biology	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	go	can	camels		day	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drink	gerund	camels not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	waste	present	fat's bodies	little water		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
4	gulp	can	a thirsty camel	hundred litres	minute	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=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:17.

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. 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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