--- title: The poem says the cure for the hump "is not to sit still, / Or frows… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Ca… · tree and pragmatics description: The poem says the cure for the hump "is not to sit still, / Or frowst with a book by the fire" ("frowst" = laze in a stuffy warm room), "But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, / And dig till you gently perspire" (sweat a little). Who acts: poem, fire, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poem, fire, you), 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:20 # text = The poem says the cure for the hump "is not to sit still, / Or frowst with a book by the fire" ("frowst" = laze in a stuffy warm room), "But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, / And dig till you gently perspire" (sweat a little). # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cure cure NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 hump hump NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 14 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 / / SYM SYM _ 18 punct _ _ 17 Or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 frowst frowst VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 frowst frowst VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 = = SYM SYM _ 28 punct _ _ 31 laze laze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 stuffy stuffy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 40 But but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 hoe hoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 shovel shovel NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 49 also also ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 51 / / SYM SYM _ 53 punct _ _ 52 And and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 dig dig VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 54 till till SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 55 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 56 gently gently ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ _ 57 perspire perspire VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 advcl _ _ 58 " " PUNCT '' _ 57 punct _ _ 59 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 60 punct _ _ 60 sweat sweat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 57 conj _ _ 61 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 obj _ _ 63 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 60 punct _ _ 64 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the poem | the cure | | | | for the hump | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | still | sit *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **frowst** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | with a book by the fire | tree rules | | 4 | **frowst** *in a quote* | infinitive | the fire *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **laze** | infinitive | the fire *not said here* | | | a stuffy warm room | | | tree rules | | 6 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | a large hoe and a shovel | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoe=Theme | | 7 | **dig** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **perspire** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | gently *property* | vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **sweat** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a little | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent little=Theme | 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. **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:20`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2:…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/75-justso-camel-hump/19/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/75-justso-camel-hump/)