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title: And from that day to this the Camel always wears a humph (we call it… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And from that day to this the Camel always wears a humph (we call it ‘hump’ now, not to hurt his feelings); but he has never yet caught up with the three days that he missed at the beginning of the world, and he has never yet learned how to behave. Who acts: Camel, we. A sentence of «Just so stories
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# Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 45

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And from that day to this the Camel always wears a humph (we call it ‘hump’ now, not to hurt his feelings); but he has never yet caught up with the three days that he missed at the beginning of the world, and he has never yet learned how to behave.

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**Who acts:** Camel, we · **What happens:** wear, call, not hurt, not catch up, miss, not learn · **To what, where:** humph, purpose, feelings, Camel, three days, beginning · **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 (Camel, we), 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:pg2781:3:45
# text = And from that day to this the Camel always wears a humph (we call it ‘hump’ now, not to hurt his feelings); but he has never yet caught up with the three days that he missed at the beginning of the world, and he has never yet learned how to behave.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	humph	humph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obj	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
52	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
53	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	55	advmod	_	_
54	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
56	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	58	advmod	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
58	behave	behave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | the Camel | a humph |  |  | day | always *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent humph=Source |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | we | purpose |  |  | now |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **hurt** | to-infinitive |  | Camel's feelings |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeling=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **catch up** | present · perfect · passive |  | Camel |  |  | yet; day |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **miss** | past | Camel | the three days |  |  | at the beginning of the world |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **learn** | present · perfect | Camel |  |  |  | yet |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **behave** | to-infinitive | Camel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **begin** |  |  | the world |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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