Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 4
The poem after the story turns it into a lesson for us: if we have too little to do we "get the hump" and go grumpy, and the cure is to get outside and dig.
Who acts: poem, we, cure · What happens: turn, have, do, get, go, be · To what, where: story, lesson, little, hump · 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 (poem, we, cure), 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 poem | det |
| 2 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 story | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 poem | nmod |
| 6 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 turns | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 lesson | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lesson | det |
| 10 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turns | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 lesson | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 turns | advcl |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 little | advmod |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 little | acl |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 get | nsubj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 get | punct |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hump | det |
| 25 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 get | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 go | cc |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | conj |
| 29 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 go | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 get | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 get | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 cure | det |
| 33 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 get | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 get | cop |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 get | mark |
| 36 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 turns | parataxis |
| 37 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 36 get | advmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 dig | cc |
| 39 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 get | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | the poem after the story | story | a lesson for us | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into lesson=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | we | little | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | get in a quote | present | we | the hump | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hump=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | go | present | we not said here | grumpy property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the cure | get, outside property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | dig | infinitive | the cure not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: 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:4.
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, R6-punct-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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