Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 19
Real biology: camels really do eat thorny desert plants; their tough lips and mouths are not hurt by the thorns.
Who acts: camels, thorns · What happens: eat, not hurt · To what, where: thorny desert plants, tough lips
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, thorns), 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 | _ | 4 camels | punct |
| 4 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 biology | conj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 eat | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 eat | aux |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 camels | acl:relcl |
| 8 | thorny | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 plants | amod |
| 9 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plants | compound |
| 10 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eat | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 biology | punct |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lips | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lips | amod |
| 14 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mouths | cc |
| 16 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lips | conj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hurt | aux:pass |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 hurt | advmod |
| 19 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 biology | parataxis |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 thorns | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thorns | det |
| 22 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hurt | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 biology | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · do-support | camels not said here | thorny desert plants | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not hurt | present · passive | the thorns | plants's tough lips and mouths | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=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:19.
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): 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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