Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 39
‘How can I,’ said the Camel, ‘with this humph on my back?’
Who acts: I · What happens: say · To what, where: Camel · 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 (I), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 I | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 I | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Camel | det |
| 9 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 humph | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 humph | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 humph | det |
| 14 | humph | humph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 humph | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 humph | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 humph | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | can | I | the Camel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent camel=Topic |
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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