Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 44
And the Camel humphed himself, humph and all, and went away to join the Three.
Who acts: Camel · What happens: humph, go away, join · To what, where: Camel, all, Three
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 (Camel), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 humphed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Camel | det |
| 3 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 humphed | nsubj |
| 4 | humphed | humph | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 humphed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 humph | punct |
| 7 | humph | humph | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 humphed | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 all | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 humph | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 humphed | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 join | mark |
| 15 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Three | det |
| 17 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 join | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 humphed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | humph | past | the Camel | Camel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | humph | infinitive | the Camel not said here | all | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go away | past | the Camel not said here | away property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | join | to-infinitive | the Camel not said here | the Three | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient |
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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