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title: ‘Djinn of All Deserts,’ said the Horse, ‘is it right for any one to… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Djinn of All Deserts,’ said the Horse, ‘is it right for any one to be idle, with the world so new-and-all?’ Who acts: Djinn, ‘. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Camel Got His Hump, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 15

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‘Djinn of All Deserts,’ said the Horse, ‘is it right for any one to be idle, with the world so new-and-all?’

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**Who acts:** Djinn, ‘ · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** Horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Camel Got His Hump. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Djinn, ‘), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:3:15
# text = ‘Djinn of All Deserts,’ said the Horse, ‘is it right for any one to be idle, with the world so new-and-all?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	Deserts	Desert	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
27	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Djinn of all Deserts | the Horse |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | ‘ |  |  |  |  | for any one; right *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | ‘ *not said here* |  |  |  |  | idle *property* | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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