Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 2

In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel, and he lived in the middle of a Howling Desert because he did not want to work; and besides, he was a Howler himself.

Who acts: world, Animals, Camel, besides · What happens: be, begin, work, live, not want · To what, where: beginning, middle, Howler, years

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 (world, Animals, Camel, besides), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 beginning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beginning	det
3	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 new	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 beginning	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 new	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 new	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 new	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 new	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 new	advmod
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 all	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 new	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 beginning	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 beginning	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Animals	det
18	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 beginning	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 beginning	aux
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 beginning	advmod
21	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 new	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 work	mark
23	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 beginning	xcomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 Man	case
25	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 work	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 was	punct
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 new	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 Camel	det
30	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 was	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lived	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 lived	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lived	nsubj
34	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 new	parataxis
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 middle	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 middle	det
37	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lived	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 Desert	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 Desert	det
40	Howling	Howling	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Desert	compound
41	Desert	Desert	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 middle	nmod
42	because	because	SCONJ	_	46 want	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 want	nsubj
44	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 want	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 want	advmod
46	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 lived	advcl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 work	mark
48	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 want	xcomp
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 Howler	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 besides	cc
51	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 Howler	nsubj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 besides	punct
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 Howler	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 Howler	cop
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 Howler	det
56	Howler	howler	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 new	conj
57	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	56 Howler	nmod:unmarked
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 new	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the world			in the beginning of years	new property	tree rules
2	begin	past · progressive	the Animals					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	work	to-infinitive	the Animals not said here				for Man	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for man=Beneficiary
4	be	past	a Camel		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	live	past	Camel		the middle of a Howling Desert			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
6	not want	past · do-support	Camel					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	work not said to happen	to-infinitive	Camel not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past	besides	a Howler			Camel nmod:unmarked	tree rules
9	begin			years				nom beginning «event 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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