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title: The Djinn (a magic spirit) in charge of All Deserts finds the Camel… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Djinn (a magic spirit) in charge of All Deserts finds the Camel admiring himself in a pool and warns him not to say "Humph!" again; the Camel says it anyway, and his back puffs up into a great lolloping "humph". Who acts: Djinn, Camel, back. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kip
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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 2

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The Djinn (a magic spirit) in charge of All Deserts finds the Camel admiring himself in a pool and warns him not to say "Humph!" again; the Camel says it anyway, and his back puffs up into a great lolloping "humph".

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**Who acts:** Djinn, Camel, back · **What happens:** find, admire, warn, not say, say, puff up · **To what, where:** Camel, pool, Humph, Djinn, great lolloping humph, Deserts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Djinn, Camel, back), 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:2
# text = The Djinn (a magic spirit) in charge of All Deserts finds the Camel admiring himself in a pool and warns him not to say "Humph!" again; the Camel says it anyway, and his back puffs up into a great lolloping "humph".
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Djinn	djinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	Deserts	desert	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
13	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	admiring	admire	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	warns	warn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Humph	Humph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	puffs	puff	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
46	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
47	lolloping	lollop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	amod	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	_
49	humph	humph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
50	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **find** | present | the Djinn in charge of all Deserts | the Camel |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent camel=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **admire** | gerund | the Camel *not said here* | Camel |  | a pool |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
| 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | the Djinn in charge of all Deserts *not said here* |  | Camel |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the Djinn in charge of all Deserts *not said here* | Humph |  |  | again |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent humph=Topic |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Camel | Djinn |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 6 | **puff up** | present | Camel's back |  |  | a great lolloping humph |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into humph=Location |
| 7 | **lollop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **charge** |  |  | all Deserts |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:2`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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