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description: The Djinn rolled himself up in his dust-cloak, and took a bearing across the desert, and found the Camel most ‘scruciatingly idle, looking at his own reflection in a pool of water. Who acts: Djinn. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Camel Got His Hump, with its dependency tr
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# Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 26

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The Djinn rolled himself up in his dust-cloak, and took a bearing across the desert, and found the Camel most ‘scruciatingly idle, looking at his own reflection in a pool of water.

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**Who acts:** Djinn · **What happens:** roll up, take, find, look · **To what, where:** Humph, dust cloak, bearing, desert, Camel

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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:pg2781:3:26
# text = The Djinn rolled himself up in his dust-cloak, and took a bearing across the desert, and found the Camel most ‘scruciatingly idle, looking at his own reflection in a pool of water.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	across	across	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	27	advmod	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	scruciatingly	scruciatingly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	reflection	reflection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll up** | past | the Djinn | Humph |  | Humph's dust cloak |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in cloak=Trajectory |
| 2 | **take** | past | the Djinn *not said here* | a bearing |  | the desert |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearing=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past |  | the Camel |  |  |  | idle *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Topic |
| 4 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at Humph's own reflection in a pool of water | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at reflection=Theme |

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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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