Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 7
Presently the Dog came to him, with a stick in his mouth, and said, ‘Camel, O Camel, come and fetch and carry like the rest of us.’
Who acts: Dog · What happens: come, say, fetch, carry · To what, where: Horse, 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 (Dog), 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 Dog | det |
| 3 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stick | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 stick | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stick | det |
| 10 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 mouth | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stick | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Camel | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Camel | punct |
| 19 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Camel | punct |
| 21 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 22 Camel | case |
| 22 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fetch | cc |
| 26 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 carry | cc |
| 28 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 fetch | conj |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 rest | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 rest | det |
| 31 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 carry | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 us | case |
| 33 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 rest | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Dog | Horse | with a stick in Horse'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 | the Dog not said here | Camel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | fetch | infinitive | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | carry | infinitive | like the rest of us | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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