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title: Just ‘Humph!’ and no more. — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Just ‘Humph!’ and no more. 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 4

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Just ‘Humph!’ and no more.

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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: 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:pg2781:3:4
# text = Just ‘Humph!’ and no more.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Humph	Humph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	no	no	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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