Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 13

African crested porcupines rattle hollow tail quills as a warning before they ever charge; they live on the ground, while American porcupines climb trees and some have gripping tails.

Who acts: African crested porcupines, Porcupines, American porcupines, some · What happens: crest, rattle, charge, live, climb, have · To what, where: hollow tail quills, ground, trees, gripping tails

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (African crested porcupines, Porcupines, American porcupines, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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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