Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 29

The Djinn sat down, with his chin in his hand, and began to think a Great Magic, while the Camel looked at his own reflection in the pool of water.

Who acts: Djinn, Camel · What happens: sit down, begin, think, look · To what, where: Great Magic

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, Camel), 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 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chin	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 chin	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 chin	nmod:poss
8	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chin	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 think	mark
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Magic	det
18	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Magic	flat
19	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 think	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 looked	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Camel	det
23	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looked	nsubj
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 began	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 reflection	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 reflection	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 reflection	amod
28	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looked	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 pool	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pool	det
31	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reflection	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 water	case
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pool	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the Djinn		with Humph's chin in Humph's hand	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive		a Great Magic		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot magic=Theme
4	look	past	the Camel		at Camel's own reflection in the 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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