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title: ‘You’ve given the Three extra work ever since Monday morning, all on… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You’ve given the Three extra work ever since Monday morning, all on account of your ‘scruciating idleness,’ said the Djinn; and he went on thinking Magics, with his chin in his hand. Who acts: You, Djinn, Camel. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Camel Got His Hump, with it
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# Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 30

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‘You’ve given the Three extra work ever since Monday morning, all on account of your ‘scruciating idleness,’ said the Djinn; and he went on thinking Magics, with his chin in his hand.

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**Who acts:** You, Djinn, Camel · **What happens:** give, scruciat, say, go, think, account · **To what, where:** Three extra work, thinking Magics, scruciating idleness · **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 (You, Djinn, Camel), 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:pg2781:3:30
# text = ‘You’ve given the Three extra work ever since Monday morning, all on account of your ‘scruciating idleness,’ said the Djinn; and he went on thinking Magics, with his chin in his hand.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’ve	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
10	since	since	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	scruciating	scruciat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	idleness	idleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	amod	_	_
33	Magics	magic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · perfect | You | the Three extra work |  |  | ever; morning |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 2 | **scruciat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Djinn |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | past | Camel |  |  | thinking Magics |  | with Camel's chin; in Camel's hand | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with chin=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **account** |  |  | your scruciating idleness |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication 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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