Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 15

‘Djinn of All Deserts,’ said the Horse, ‘is it right for any one to be idle, with the world so new-and-all?’

Who acts: Djinn, ‘ · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Horse · 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 (Djinn, ‘), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Djinn	punct
2	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Deserts	case
4	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 Deserts	det
5	Deserts	Desert	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Djinn	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Djinn	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Djinn	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Horse	det
10	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 right	punct
12	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 right	nsubj
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 one	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 right	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	21 idle	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 idle	cop
21	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 right	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 world	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 world	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 world	det
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
26	so	so	ADV	_	31 all	advmod
27	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 all	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 all	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 all	cc
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 all	punct
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 world	conj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 world	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 world	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Djinn of all Deserts	the Horse		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic
2	is	present	‘		for any one; right property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	‘ not said here		idle 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.

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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