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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 6

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On Monday morning the Horse came first, "with a saddle on his back and a bit in his mouth" and asked him to trot; the Dog came "with a stick in his mouth" to fetch and carry; the Ox came "with the yoke on his neck" to plough.

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**Who acts:** Horse, Dog, Ox · **What happens:** come, ask, trot, fetch, carry, plough · **To what, where:** Camel

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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 (Horse, Dog, Ox), 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:6
# text = On Monday morning the Horse came first, "with a saddle on his back and a bit in his mouth" and asked him to trot; the Dog came "with a stick in his mouth" to fetch and carry; the Ox came "with the yoke on his neck" to plough.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	trot	trot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
48	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	51	punct	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
55	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	plough	plough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	advcl	_	_
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Horse |  |  |  | morning | with a saddle on Camel's back and a bit in Camel's mouth; first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Horse *not said here* |  | Camel |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **trot** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | the Dog |  |  |  |  | with a stick in Camel's mouth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | the Dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **carry** | infinitive | the Dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **come** | past | the Ox |  |  |  |  | with the yoke on Camel's neck | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **plough** | to-infinitive | the Ox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent 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:6`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-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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