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title: ‘That’s your very own humph that you’ve brought upon your very own s… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘That’s your very own humph that you’ve brought upon your very own self by not working. Who acts: That. 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 36

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‘That’s your very own humph that you’ve brought upon your very own self by not working.

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**Who acts:** That · **What happens:** be, bring, not work · **To what, where:** own humph

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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 (That), 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:pg2781:3:36
# text = ‘That’s your very own humph that you’ve brought upon your very own self by not working.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	humph	humph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’ve	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | your own humph |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | present · passive |  | your own humph |  |  |  | upon your own self | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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