Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 95

Let’s make the ssh-noise a snake.

Who acts: you, ’s · What happens: let, make · To what, where: ’s, ssh 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, ’s), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	’s	we	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 noise	det
5	ssh	ssh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 noise	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ssh	punct
7	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 snake	det
9	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	’s					tree rules
2	make	infinitive	’s not said here	the ssh noise					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product

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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