Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 23

‘Only “Humph!”; and he won’t plough,’ said the Ox.

Who acts: Humph · What happens: not plough, say · To what, where: Ox · 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 (Humph), 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	_	4 Humph	punct
2	Only	only	ADV	_	4 Humph	advmod
3	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 Humph	punct
4	Humph	Humph	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Humph	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 Humph	punct
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 plough	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 plough	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 plough	nsubj
10	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 plough	aux
11	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 plough	advmod
12	plough	plough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 Humph	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 plough	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 plough	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Ox	det
17	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not plough	future	Humph						vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Humph	the Ox					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ox=Topic

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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