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title: Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo, If we haven’t enough to do-oo-oo, W… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo, If we haven’t enough to do-oo-oo, We get the hump-- Cameelious hump-- The hump that is black and blue! Who acts: we, hump. 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 47

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Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo, If we haven’t enough to do-oo-oo, We get the hump-- Cameelious hump-- The hump that is black and blue!

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**Who acts:** we, hump · **What happens:** grow, have, do, get, be · **To what, where:** oo oo, hump

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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 (we, hump), 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:pg2781:3:47
# text = Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo, If we haven’t enough to do-oo-oo, We get the hump-- Cameelious hump-- The hump that is black and blue!
1	Kiddies	kiddie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	oo	oo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	oo	oo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	oo	oo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	oo	oo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
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	14	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	Cameelious	Cameelious	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | we |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | oo oo |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oo=Eventuality |
| 4 | **get** | present | We | the hump and Cameelious hump |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hump=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | present | the hump |  |  |  |  | black *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | the hump *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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