Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 40
‘That’s made a-purpose,’ said the Djinn, ‘all because you missed those three days.
Who acts: ’s, Djinn, you · What happens: make, say, miss · To what, where: purpose · 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 (’s, Djinn, you), 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 made | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 ’s | det |
| 3 | ’s | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 purpose | det |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 a | punct |
| 7 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Djinn | det |
| 12 | Djinn | Djinn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 all | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 all | punct |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 Djinn | conj |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 missed | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 missed | nsubj |
| 18 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 days | det |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 days | nummod |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 missed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | that ’s | a purpose | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset purpose=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Djinn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | miss | past | you | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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