Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 37
To-day is Thursday, and you’ve done no work since Monday, when the work began.
Who acts: you, work · What happens: be, do, begin · To what, where: Thursday, work
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, work), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Thursday | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Thursday | cop |
| 5 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 done | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 9 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 Thursday | acl:relcl |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 work | det |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 done | obj |
| 13 | since | since | ADP | _ | 14 Monday | case |
| 14 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 done | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 began | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 work | det |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Thursday | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Thursday | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Thursday | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | you | no work | monday | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | begin | past | the work | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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