Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 28
“What makes you keep moving your mouth and whiskers?”
Who acts: you · What happens: make, keep, move · To what, where: mouth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit. 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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | ccomp |
| 6 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moving | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 whiskers | cc |
| 10 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mouth | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | What nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | move in a quote | gerund | you not said here | your mouth and whiskers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme |
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: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (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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