Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 13

You make a noise--any sort of noise.’

Who acts: You · What happens: make, sort · To what, where: noise

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 noise	det
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 sort	punct
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 sort	det
7	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 noise	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 noise	case
9	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sort	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	You	a noise					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product
2	sort			noise					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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.

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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