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title: THE Camel’s hump is an ugly lump Which well you may see at the Zoo;… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: THE Camel’s hump is an ugly lump Which well you may see at the Zoo; But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too little to do. Who acts: hump, ugly lump, you, we. 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 46

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THE Camel’s hump is an ugly lump Which well you may see at the Zoo; But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too little to do.

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**Who acts:** hump, ugly lump, you, we · **What happens:** be, well, see, get, have, do · **To what, where:** ugly lump, Zoo, hump, little

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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 (hump, ugly lump, you, 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:pg2781:3:46
# text = THE Camel’s hump is an ugly lump Which well you may see at the Zoo; But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too little to do.
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
9	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	well	well	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	uglier	ugly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
20	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
24	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	From	from	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	too	too	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Camel's hump | a ugly lump |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **well** | past | a ugly lump |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | may | you |  |  | the Zoo |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a ugly lump | the hump |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | present | we | the hump *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hump=Stimulus |
| 6 | **have** | gerund | we *not said here* | little |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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