Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 2
The Djinn (a magic spirit) in charge of All Deserts finds the Camel admiring himself in a pool and warns him not to say "Humph!" again; the Camel says it anyway, and his back puffs up into a great lolloping "humph".
Who acts: Djinn, Camel, back · What happens: find, admire, warn, not say, say, puff up · To what, where: Camel, pool, Humph, Djinn, great lolloping humph, Deserts · 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, Camel, back), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Djinn | det |
| 2 | Djinn | djinn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 spirit | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spirit | det |
| 5 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spirit | compound |
| 6 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Djinn | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 spirit | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 charge | case |
| 9 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Djinn | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Deserts | case |
| 11 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 Deserts | det |
| 12 | Deserts | desert | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 charge | nmod |
| 13 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Camel | det |
| 15 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finds | obj |
| 16 | admiring | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 finds | xcomp |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 admiring | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 pool | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pool | det |
| 20 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 admiring | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 warns | cc |
| 22 | warns | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 finds | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 warns | obj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 say | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 say | mark |
| 26 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 warns | xcomp |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Humph | punct |
| 28 | Humph | Humph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 say | obj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 Humph | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Humph | punct |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 say | advmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 says | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Camel | det |
| 34 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 says | nsubj |
| 35 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 finds | parataxis |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 says | obj |
| 37 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 35 says | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 puffs | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 puffs | cc |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 back | nmod:poss |
| 41 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 puffs | nsubj |
| 42 | puffs | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 finds | conj |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 puffs | compound:prt |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 humph | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 humph | det |
| 46 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 humph | amod |
| 47 | lolloping | lollop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 49 humph | amod |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 humph | punct |
| 49 | humph | humph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 puffs | obl |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 humph | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | the Djinn in charge of all Deserts | the Camel | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent camel=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | admire | gerund | the Camel not said here | Camel | a pool | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | present | the Djinn in charge of all Deserts not said here | Camel | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | to-infinitive | the Djinn in charge of all Deserts not said here | Humph | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent humph=Topic | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | the Camel | Djinn | anyway property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 6 | puff up | present | Camel's back | a great lolloping humph | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into humph=Location | ||||
| 7 | lollop | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | charge | all Deserts | nom charge «act 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:2.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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