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# Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 50

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And there ought to be a corner for me (And I know there is one for you) When we get the hump-- Cameelious hump-- The hump that is black and blue!

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**Who acts:** I, we, hump · **What happens:** be, know, get · **To what, where:** corner, one, 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 (I, 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:pg2781:3:50
# text = And there ought to be a corner for me (And I know there is one for you) When we get the hump-- Cameelious hump-- The hump that is black and blue!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
20	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Cameelious	Cameelious	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a corner and Cameelious hump |  |  |  | for me | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | one |  | there |  | for you | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | present | we | the 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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