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title: The cure for this ill is not to sit still, Or frowst with a book by… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The cure for this ill is not to sit still, Or frowst with a book by the fire; But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, And dig till you gently perspire; Who acts: cure. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Camel Got His Hump, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 51

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The cure for this ill is not to sit still, Or frowst with a book by the fire; But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, And dig till you gently perspire;

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**Who acts:** cure · **What happens:** not be, frowst, take, dig, perspire · **To what, where:** large hoe

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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 (cure), 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:pg2781:3:51
# text = The cure for this ill is not to sit still, Or frowst with a book by the fire; But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, And dig till you gently perspire;
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	frowst	frowst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hoe	hoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	shovel	shovel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
34	till	till	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
37	perspire	perspire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | the cure |  |  |  | still | sit *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **frowst** | infinitive | the cure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a book; by the fire | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | the cure *not said here* | a large hoe and a shovel |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoe=Theme |
| 4 | **dig** | infinitive | the cure *not said here* |  |  |  | till you | gently *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **perspire** | present | the cure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «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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