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title: To-day is Thursday, and you’ve done no work since Monday, when the w… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: To-day is Thursday, and you’ve done no work since Monday, when the work began. Who acts: you, work. 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 37

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To-day is Thursday, and you’ve done no work since Monday, when the work began.

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**Who acts:** you, work · **What happens:** be, do, begin · **To what, where:** Thursday, work

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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, work), 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:pg2781:3:37
# text = To-day is Thursday, and you’ve done no work since Monday, when the work began.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’ve	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	since	since	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Thursday |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present · perfect | you | no work |  |  | monday |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the work |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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