Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 12

That made the Three very angry (with the world so new-and-all), and they held a palaver, and an _indaba_, and a _punchayet_, and a pow-wow on the edge of the Desert; and the Camel came chewing on milkweed _most_ ‘scruciating idle, and laughed at them.

Who acts: That, besides, Camel · What happens: make, hold, come, chew, scruciat, laugh · To what, where: Three, palaver, most ‘, milkweed

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 (That, besides, 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Three	det
4	Three	Three	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 world	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 angry	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 new	advmod
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	advcl
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 all	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 all	cc
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 all	punct
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 new	conj
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 all	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 held	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 held	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 held	nsubj
21	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 all	acl:relcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 palaver	det
23	palaver	palaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 held	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 indaba	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 indaba	cc
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 indaba	det
27	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 indaba	amod
28	indaba	indaba	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 palaver	conj
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 held	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 all	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 punchayet	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 punchayet	det
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 punchayet	punct
34	punchayet	punchayet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 all	conj
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 all	punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 wow	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 wow	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 wow	det
39	pow	pow	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wow	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 pow	punct
41	wow	wow	NOUN	_	16 all	nmod
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 edge	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 edge	det
44	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wow	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 Desert	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Desert	det
47	Desert	Desert	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 edge	nmod
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 came	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 came	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Camel	det
51	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 came	nsubj
52	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
53	chewing	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 came	xcomp
54	on	on	ADP	_	55 milkweed	case
55	milkweed	milkweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 chewing	obl
56	_	_	PUNCT	_	59 ‘	punct
57	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	59 ‘	amod
58	_	_	PUNCT	_	57 most	punct
59	‘	‘	X	_	53 chewing	obj
60	scruciating	scruciat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	59 ‘	advcl
61	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 scruciating	xcomp
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 laughed	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 laughed	cc
64	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 came	conj
65	at	at	ADP	_	66 them	case
66	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 laughed	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	That	the Three		angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset three=Product
2	hold	past	besides = beside	a palaver and a _ indaba			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palaver=Theme
3	come	past	the Camel				tree rules
4	chew	gerund	the Camel not said here	most ‘	milkweed		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ‘=Patient
5	scruciat	gerund	the Camel not said here			idle property	tree rules
6	laugh	past	the Camel not said here			at besides = beside	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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.

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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