Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 50
And there ought to be a corner for me (And I know there is one for you) When we get the hump-- Cameelious hump-- The hump that is black and blue!
Who acts: I, we, hump · What happens: be, know, get · To what, where: corner, one, 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 (I, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ought | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 ought | expl |
| 3 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 corner | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 corner | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 corner | det |
| 7 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ought | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 corner | nmod |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 corner | parataxis |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 one | expl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 one | cop |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 know | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 one | nmod |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 20 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 get | advmod |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hump | det |
| 24 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 hump | punct |
| 26 | Cameelious | Cameelious | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 hump | compound |
| 27 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 corner | conj |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 hump | punct |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hump | det |
| 30 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hump | appos |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 black | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 black | cop |
| 33 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hump | acl:relcl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 blue | cc |
| 35 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 black | conj |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 ought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | to-infinitive | a corner and Cameelious hump | for me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | one | there | for you | tree rules | |||
| 4 | get | present | we | the 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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