Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 47
Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo, If we haven’t enough to do-oo-oo, We get the hump-- Cameelious hump-- The hump that is black and blue!
Who acts: we, hump · What happens: grow, have, do, get, be · To what, where: oo oo, hump
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 (we, hump), 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 | Kiddies | kiddie | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ups | cc |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ups | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ups | punct |
| 5 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kiddies | conj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 oo | advmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 too | punct |
| 8 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 oo | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 oo | punct |
| 10 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kiddies | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Kiddies | parataxis |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 enough | advmod |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 14 have | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 enough | advcl |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 oo | punct |
| 20 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 oo | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 oo | punct |
| 22 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 24 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 get | nsubj |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hump | det |
| 27 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obj |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 hump | punct |
| 29 | Cameelious | Cameelious | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 hump | compound |
| 30 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hump | conj |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 hump | punct |
| 32 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hump | det |
| 33 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hump | appos |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 black | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 black | cop |
| 36 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hump | acl:relcl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 blue | cc |
| 38 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 black | conj |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kiddies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | we | enough property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | we not said here | oo oo | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oo=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | get | present | We | the hump and Cameelious hump | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hump=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the hump | black property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | the hump not said here | tree rules |
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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