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title: ‘That’s made a-purpose,’ said the Djinn, ‘all because you missed tho… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘That’s made a-purpose,’ said the Djinn, ‘all because you missed those three days. Who acts: ’s, Djinn, you. 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 40

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‘That’s made a-purpose,’ said the Djinn, ‘all because you missed those three days.

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**Who acts:** ’s, Djinn, you · **What happens:** make, say, miss · **To what, where:** purpose · **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 (’s, Djinn, you), 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:pg2781:3:40
# text = ‘That’s made a-purpose,’ said the Djinn, ‘all because you missed those three days.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	conj	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
19	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | that ’s | a purpose |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset purpose=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Djinn |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **miss** | past | you |  |  |  | day |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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