Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 6

‘Humph!’ said the Camel; and the Horse went away and told the Man.

Who acts: Humph, Horse · What happens: say, go away, tell · To what, where: Camel, Man · 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 (Humph, Horse), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Humph	punct
2	Humph	Humph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Humph	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Humph	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Camel	det
7	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Horse	det
11	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Man	det
17	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	iobj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Humph	the Camel			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent camel=Topic
2	go away	past	the Horse			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the Horse not said here		the Man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient

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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