Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 36
‘That’s your very own humph that you’ve brought upon your very own self by not working.
Who acts: That · What happens: be, bring, not work · To what, where: own 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 (That), 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 | _ | 7 humph | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 humph | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 humph | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 humph | nmod:poss |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 own | advmod |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 humph | amod |
| 7 | humph | humph | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux:pass |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 humph | acl:relcl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 self | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 self | nmod:poss |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 own | advmod |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 self | amod |
| 16 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obl |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 working | mark |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 working | advmod |
| 19 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 brought | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 humph | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | your own humph | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | present · passive | your own humph | upon your own self | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not work | gerund | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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