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title: You will be able to work now for three days without eating, because… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: You will be able to work now for three days without eating, because you can live on your humph; and don’t you ever say I never did anything for you. Who acts: You, I. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Camel Got His Hump, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 41

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You will be able to work now for three days without eating, because you can live on your humph; and don’t you ever say I never did anything for you.

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** be, work, eat, live, not do, say · **To what, where:** humph, you, anything · **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, I), 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:pg2781:3:41
# text = You will be able to work now for three days without eating, because you can live on your humph; and don’t you ever say I never did anything for you.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	humph	humph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
26	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
31	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	30	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | You |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  | now; day |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **live** | can | you |  |  | your humph |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on humph=Location |
| 5 | **not** **do** | infinitive | You *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | You *not said here* |  |  |  | ever |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **do** | past | I | anything |  |  |  | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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