--- title: Presently there came along the Djinn in charge of All Deserts, rolli… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Presently there came along the Djinn in charge of All Deserts, rolling in a cloud of dust (Djinns always travel that way because it is Magic), and he stopped to palaver and pow-pow with the Three. Who acts: Djinn, Djinns, Camel. 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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 (Djinn, Djinns, Camel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2781:36`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2781:3:14 # text = Presently there came along the Djinn in charge of All Deserts, rolling in a cloud of dust (Djinns always travel that way because it is Magic), and he stopped to palaver and pow-pow with the Three. 1 Presently presently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 along along ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Djinn djinn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 Deserts desert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 rolling roll VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 acl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 20 Djinns djinn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 22 advmod _ _ 22 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 Magic Magic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 advcl _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 palaver palaver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 pow pow NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ _ 39 pow pow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Three Three PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come along** | past | the Djinn in charge of all Deserts | | | there | | presently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **roll** | gerund | the Djinn in charge of all Deserts *not said here* | | | a cloud of dust | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Trajectory | | 3 | **travel** | present | Djinns | that way | | | | always *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | Djinn | Magic | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stop** | past | Camel | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **palaver** | to-infinitive | Camel *not said here* | | | | | with the Three | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with three=Co-Agent | | 7 | **pow** | infinitive | Camel *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **charge** | | | all Deserts | | | | | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **cloud** | | | dust | | | | | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/3/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/3/15/) - ↑ back to [How the Camel Got His Hump](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/3/)