Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 5
Presently the Horse came to him on Monday morning, with a saddle on his back and a bit in his mouth, and said, ‘Camel, O Camel, come out and trot like the rest of us.’
Who acts: Horse, you · What happens: come, say, come out, trot · To what, where: Humph, 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 (Horse, 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Horse | det |
| 3 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 come | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 morning | case |
| 8 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 morning | compound |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saddle | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 saddle | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 saddle | det |
| 13 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saddle | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bit | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bit | det |
| 19 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saddle | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 mouth | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bit | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Camel | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 Camel | punct |
| 28 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Camel | punct |
| 30 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 31 Camel | case |
| 31 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | out | out | ADV | _ | 33 come | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 trot | cc |
| 36 | trot | trot | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 33 come | conj |
| 37 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 rest | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 rest | det |
| 39 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 trot | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 us | case |
| 41 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 rest | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Horse | Humph | morning | with a saddle on Humph's back and a bit in Humph's mouth; presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Camel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come out | imperative | you not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | trot | infinitive | you not said here | like the rest of us | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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