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title: In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and th… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel, and he lived in the middle of a Howling Desert because he did not want to work; and besides, he was a Howler himself. Who acts: world, Animals, Camel, besides. A sent
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# Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 2

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In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel, and he lived in the middle of a Howling Desert because he did not want to work; and besides, he was a Howler himself.

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**Who acts:** world, Animals, Camel, besides · **What happens:** be, begin, work, live, not want · **To what, where:** beginning, middle, Howler, years

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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 (world, Animals, Camel, besides), 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:pg2781:3:2
# text = In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel, and he lived in the middle of a Howling Desert because he did not want to work; and besides, he was a Howler himself.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Howling	Howling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
42	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	besides	beside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	Howler	howler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
57	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	56	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the world |  |  |  | in the beginning of years | new *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past · progressive | the Animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | the Animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Man | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for man=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **be** | past | a Camel |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **live** | past | Camel |  |  | the middle of a Howling Desert |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location |
| 6 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | Camel |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **work** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Camel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is a** | past | besides | a Howler |  |  |  | Camel *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 9 | **begin** |  |  | years |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event 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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**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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