Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 26

The Djinn rolled himself up in his dust-cloak, and took a bearing across the desert, and found the Camel most ‘scruciatingly idle, looking at his own reflection in a pool of water.

Who acts: Djinn · What happens: roll up, take, find, look · To what, where: Humph, dust cloak, bearing, desert, Camel

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Djinn	det
2	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rolled	nsubj
3	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 rolled	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 rolled	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 cloak	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cloak	nmod:poss
8	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cloak	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 dust	punct
10	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolled	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rolled	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bearing	det
15	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	across	across	ADP	_	18 desert	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 desert	det
18	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 found	cc
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rolled	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Camel	det
23	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obj
24	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 idle	advmod
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 idle	punct
26	scruciatingly	scruciatingly	ADV	_	27 idle	advmod
27	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 found	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 looking	punct
29	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 found	advcl
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 reflection	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 reflection	nmod:poss
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 reflection	amod
33	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 looking	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 pool	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 pool	det
36	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reflection	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 water	case
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pool	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll up	past	the Djinn	Humph	Humph's dust cloak		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in cloak=Trajectory
2	take	past	the Djinn not said here	a bearing	the desert		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearing=Theme
3	find	past		the Camel		idle property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Topic
4	look	gerund				at Humph's own reflection in a pool of water	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at reflection=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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