Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 17

‘Well,’ said the Horse, ‘there’s a thing in the middle of your Howling Desert (and he’s a Howler himself) with a long neck and long legs, and he hasn’t done a stroke of work since Monday morning.

Who acts: Horse · What happens: say, be, not do, stroke · To what, where: Horse, Howler, stroke, work · 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 (Horse), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Horse	det
7	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ’s	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 ’s	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 ’s	expl
11	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thing	det
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ’s	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 middle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 middle	det
16	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ’s	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 Desert	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 Desert	nmod:poss
19	Howling	Howling	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Desert	compound
20	Desert	Desert	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 middle	nmod
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 Howler	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Howler	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 Howler	nsubj
24	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 Howler	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 Howler	det
26	Howler	howler	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Desert	appos
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	26 Howler	nmod:unmarked
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 Howler	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 neck	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 neck	det
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 neck	amod
32	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ’s	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 legs	cc
34	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 legs	amod
35	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 neck	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 done	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 done	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 done	nsubj
39	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 done	aux
40	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 done	advmod
41	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 stroke	det
43	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 done	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 work	case
45	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stroke	nmod
46	since	since	ADP	_	48 morning	case
47	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 morning	compound
48	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 done	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the Horse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic
2	is a	present	Horse	a Howler		Horse nmod:unmarked	tree rules
3	not do	present · perfect	Horse	a stroke of work	morning		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=Eventuality
4	stroke			work			nom stroke «act 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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