Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 27

‘My long and bubbling friend,’ said the Djinn, ‘what’s this I hear of your doing no work, with the world so new-and-all?’

Who acts: long friend, I, your · What happens: bubble, say, hear, do · To what, where: 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 (long friend, I, your), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friend	nmod:poss
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friend	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bubbling	cc
5	bubbling	bubble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 long	conj
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 friend	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 friend	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Djinn	det
11	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ’s	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 ’s	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 ’s	nsubj
15	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hear	advcl
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 ’s	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 hear	nsubj
18	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 doing	mark
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 doing	nsubj
21	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 hear	ccomp
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 work	det
23	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 doing	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 world	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 world	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 doing	obl
28	so	so	ADV	_	33 all	advmod
29	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 all	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 all	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 all	cc
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 all	punct
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 doing	obj
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bubble	gerund	My long friend not said here			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	say speech: assert	past	My long friend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hear	present	I			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	gerund	your	no work	with the world	tree rules

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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