Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 30
‘You’ve given the Three extra work ever since Monday morning, all on account of your ‘scruciating idleness,’ said the Djinn; and he went on thinking Magics, with his chin in his hand.
Who acts: You, Djinn, Camel · What happens: give, scruciat, say, go, think, account · To what, where: Three extra work, thinking Magics, scruciating idleness · 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 (You, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 work | det |
| 6 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 work | nummod |
| 7 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 work | amod |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 given | advmod |
| 10 | since | since | ADP | _ | 12 morning | case |
| 11 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 morning | compound |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 account | punct |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 account | det |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 account | case |
| 16 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 morning | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 idleness | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 idleness | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 scruciating | punct |
| 20 | scruciating | scruciat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 idleness | amod |
| 21 | idleness | idleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 account | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Djinn | det |
| 26 | Djinn | Djinn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 went | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 Magics | case |
| 32 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 Magics | amod |
| 33 | Magics | magic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 went | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 chin | punct |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 chin | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 chin | nmod:poss |
| 37 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 hand | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 hand | nmod:poss |
| 40 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | You | the Three extra work | ever; morning | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | |||
| 2 | scruciat | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Djinn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go | past | Camel | thinking Magics | with Camel's chin; in Camel's hand | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with chin=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | gerund | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | account | your scruciating idleness | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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