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title: The Camel's back puffed up "into a great big lolloping humph"; the C… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Camel's back puffed up "into a great big lolloping humph"; the Camel had done no work from Monday to Thursday, so he had missed three days. Who acts: back, 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 sch
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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 13

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The Camel's back puffed up "into a great big lolloping humph"; the Camel had done no work from Monday to Thursday, so he had missed three days.

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**Who acts:** back, Camel · **What happens:** puff up, do, miss · **To what, where:** great big lolloping humph, work

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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 (back, 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:13
# text = The Camel's back puffed up "into a great big lolloping humph"; the Camel had done no work from Monday to Thursday, so he had missed three days.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	puffed	puff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	lolloping	lollop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
13	humph	humph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Camel	Camel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	missed	miss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	parataxis	_	_
31	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **puff up** | past | the Camel's back |  |  | a great big lolloping humph |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into humph=Location |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | the Camel | no work |  |  | monday; thursday |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 3 | **miss** | past · perfect | Camel |  |  |  | day |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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