Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 14
Presently there came along the Djinn in charge of All Deserts, rolling in a cloud of dust (Djinns always travel that way because it is Magic), and he stopped to palaver and pow-pow with the Three.
Who acts: Djinn, Djinns, Camel · What happens: come along, roll, travel, be, stop, palaver · To what, where: cloud, way, Magic, Deserts, dust
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 (Djinn, Djinns, Camel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:36): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 3 came | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Djinn | det |
| 6 | Djinn | djinn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 charge | case |
| 8 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Djinn | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Deserts | case |
| 10 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 Deserts | det |
| 11 | Deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 charge | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rolling | punct |
| 13 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 Djinn | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cloud | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cloud | det |
| 16 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rolling | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 dust | case |
| 18 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cloud | nmod |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 travel | punct |
| 20 | Djinns | djinn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 travel | nsubj |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 travel | advmod |
| 22 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 way | det |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 travel | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 28 Magic | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 Magic | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 Magic | cop |
| 28 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 travel | advcl |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 travel | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stopped | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 stopped | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 stopped | nsubj |
| 33 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 palaver | mark |
| 35 | palaver | palaver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 stopped | advcl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 pow | cc |
| 37 | pow | pow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 pow | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 pow | punct |
| 39 | pow | pow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 palaver | conj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 Three | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Three | det |
| 42 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 palaver | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come along | past | the Djinn in charge of all Deserts | there | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | roll | gerund | the Djinn in charge of all Deserts not said here | a cloud of dust | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | travel | present | Djinns | that way | always property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a | present | Djinn | Magic | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stop | past | Camel | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | palaver | to-infinitive | Camel not said here | with the Three | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with three=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | pow | infinitive | Camel not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | charge | all Deserts | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | cloud | dust | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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