Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 25
‘I’ll humph him if you will kindly wait a minute.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: 'll, humph, wait · To what, where: Humph
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 (I, you), 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 | _ | 3 ’ll | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’ll | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | humph | humph | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ’ll | xcomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 humph | obj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 wait | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 wait | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 wait | aux |
| 9 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 10 wait | advmod |
| 10 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 humph | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 minute | det |
| 12 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ll | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ll | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 'll | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | humph | infinitive | I not said here | Humph | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wait a condition, not said to happen | future | you | minute | kindly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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