Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 41

You will be able to work now for three days without eating, because you can live on your humph; and don’t you ever say I never did anything for you.

Who acts: You, I · What happens: be, work, eat, live, not do, say · To what, where: humph, you, anything · 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, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 able	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 able	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 able	cop
4	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 work	mark
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 able	xcomp
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 work	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 days	case
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 days	nummod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 work	obl
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 eating	mark
12	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 work	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 live	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 live	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 live	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 live	aux
17	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 work	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 humph	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 humph	nmod:poss
20	humph	humph	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 live	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 do	cc
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 able	conj
24	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 do	advmod
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 do	obj
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 say	advmod
27	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 do	advcl
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 did	nsubj
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 did	advmod
30	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 say	ccomp
31	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 did	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 anything	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	You				able property	tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	You not said here			now; day		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	gerund	You not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	live	can	you		your humph			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on humph=Location
5	not do	infinitive	You not said here	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert	present	You not said here			ever		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not do	past	I	anything			for you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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