Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 3

The Djinn explains that the hump lets him work three days without eating, to make up for the three days he missed; the Camel joins the Three but has never caught up, and has never learned to behave.

Who acts: Djinn, hump, Humph, Camel · What happens: explain, let, work, eat, make up, miss · To what, where: Humph, three days, Three · 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, hump, Humph, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Djinn	det
2	Djinn	djinn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 explains	nsubj
3	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 lets	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hump	det
6	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lets	nsubj
7	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 explains	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lets	obj
9	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lets	xcomp
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 days	nummod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 work	obl
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 eating	mark
13	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 work	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 make	mark
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 work	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 make	compound:prt
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 days	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 days	det
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 days	nummod
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 make	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 missed	nsubj
23	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 days	acl:relcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 joins	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Camel	det
26	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 joins	nsubj
27	joins	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 make	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Three	det
29	Three	Three	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 joins	obj
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 caught	cc
31	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 caught	aux
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 caught	advmod
33	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 joins	conj
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 caught	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 learned	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 learned	cc
37	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 learned	aux
38	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	39 learned	advmod
39	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 caught	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 behave	mark
41	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 learned	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 explains	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present	the Djinn			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	present	the hump	Humph		tree rules
3	work	infinitive	Humph not said here		day	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	gerund	Humph not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make up	to-infinitive	Humph not said here		day	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	miss	past	Humph	the three days not said here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer day=Stimulus
7	join	present	the Camel	the Three		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient
8	not catch up	present · perfect	the Camel not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	not learn	present · perfect	the Camel not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	behave	to-infinitive	the Camel not said here			vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

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:3.

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, R8-pos-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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