Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 18
Real biology: dromedary camels (Arabia, North Africa) have one hump and Bactrian camels (Central Asia) have two; people have kept camels to carry loads and give milk for thousands of years.
Who acts: dromedary camels, Bactrian camels, people · What happens: have, keep, carry, give · To what, where: Real biology, two, camels, loads, milk
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 (dromedary camels, Bactrian camels, people), 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 | 12 have | obl |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 camels | punct |
| 4 | dromedary | dromedary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 camels | compound |
| 5 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | nsubj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 Arabia | punct |
| 7 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 camels | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Africa | punct |
| 9 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Africa | compound |
| 10 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Arabia | conj |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 Arabia | punct |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hump | nummod |
| 14 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 16 | Bactrian | bactrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 camels | amod |
| 17 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | nsubj |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 Asia | punct |
| 19 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Asia | compound |
| 20 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 camels | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 Asia | punct |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | conj |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 kept | punct |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 kept | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 kept | aux |
| 27 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 have | parataxis |
| 28 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 kept | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 carry | mark |
| 30 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 camels | acl |
| 31 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 carry | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 give | cc |
| 33 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 carry | conj |
| 34 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 give | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 thousands | case |
| 36 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 give | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 years | case |
| 38 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 thousands | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 biology | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | dromedary camels | Real biology | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hump=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Bactrian camels | two | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient | ||||
| 3 | keep | present · perfect | people | camels | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive | people not said here | loads | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | people not said here | milk | for thousands of years | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent milk=Theme for thousand=Asset |
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:18.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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