Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 5
The Camel lived in "a Howling Desert because he did not want to work", eating "sticks and thorns and tamarisks and milkweed and prickles"; "'scruciating idle" is short for "excruciatingly idle", terribly lazy.
Who acts: Camel, sticks · What happens: live, not want, work, eat, scruciat, be · To what, where: Howling Desert, sticks
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 (Camel, sticks), 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 Camel | det |
| 2 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Desert | case |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Desert | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Desert | det |
| 7 | Howling | Howling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Desert | compound |
| 8 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 want | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 want | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 want | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 want | advmod |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lived | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 work | mark |
| 15 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 want | xcomp |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 work | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sticks | punct |
| 18 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 lived | advcl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 eating | punct |
| 20 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 eating | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 thorns | cc |
| 22 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sticks | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tamarisks | cc |
| 24 | tamarisks | tamarisk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sticks | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 milkweed | cc |
| 26 | milkweed | milkweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sticks | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 prickles | cc |
| 28 | prickles | prickle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 milkweed | conj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 prickles | punct |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 sticks | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sticks | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 sticks | punct |
| 33 | scruciating | scruciat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 sticks | acl |
| 34 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 scruciating | xcomp |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 idle | punct |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 short | cop |
| 37 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 idle | conj |
| 38 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 idle | mark |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 idle | punct |
| 40 | excruciatingly | excruciatingly | ADV | _ | 41 idle | advmod |
| 41 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 scruciating | ccomp |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 idle | punct |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 lazy | punct |
| 44 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 45 lazy | advmod |
| 45 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 idle | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | 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 | live | past | the Camel | a Howling Desert | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location | ||||
| 2 | not want in a quote | past · do-support | Camel | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | work not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Camel not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | the Camel not said here | sticks and thorns and tamarisks and milkweed and prickles | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient | ||||
| 5 | scruciat in a quote | gerund | sticks and thorns and tamarisks and milkweed and prickles not said here | idle property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | present | sticks and thorns and tamarisks and milkweed and prickles not said here | short property | tree rules |
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:5.
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, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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