Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 1

NOW this is the next tale, and it tells how the Camel got his big hump.

Who acts: this, tale, Camel · What happens: be, tell, get · To what, where: next tale, big hump · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Camel Got His Hump. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, tale, Camel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	NOW	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 tale	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 tale	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tale	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tale	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tale	amod
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tells	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tells	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tells	nsubj
10	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tale	conj
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 got	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Camel	det
13	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	nsubj
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tells	ccomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hump	nmod:poss
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hump	amod
17	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	this	the next tale	now	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	tale			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get	past	the Camel	Camel's big hump		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hump=Stimulus

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.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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