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title: The Camel came by "chewing milkweed most 'scruciating idle" and laug… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Camel came by "chewing milkweed most 'scruciating idle" and laughed at them. Who acts: Camel. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 10

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The Camel came by "chewing milkweed most 'scruciating idle" and laughed at them.

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**Who acts:** Camel · **What happens:** come, chew, scruciat, laugh · **To what, where:** milkweed

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Camel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:075-justso-camel-hump.lesson:10
# text = The Camel came by "chewing milkweed most 'scruciating idle" and laughed at them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 075-justso-camel-hump.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	milkweed	milkweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	appos	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	scruciating	scruciat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Camel |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **chew** *in a quote* | gerund | the Camel *not said here* | milkweed |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milkweed=Patient |
| 3 | **scruciat** *in a quote* | gerund | the Camel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | idle *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **laugh** | past | the Camel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at animals *= animal* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:075-justso-camel-hump.lesson:10`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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