Using the Drawing Sentence Syntax Trees and Drawing Question Syntax Trees tutorials as a guide, answer the following questions. Send your answers to me as a .pdf file.

1. Consider the sentence  Luke met Obi-Wan Kenobi

• a.  What is the subject of the sentence? How should this attach to the sentence IP?
• b.   What is the predicate? How should this attach to the sentence IP?
• c.  Is Obi-Wan Kenobi a complement or a modifier of the VP met? Based on this information, what node should it attach to in the VP?
• d. What is the head of the IP?
• e. Draw a tree f0r this sentence. Be sure to show all three levels of each Phrase.

2. Now consider the sentence Luke met the old Jedi. 

We have now replaced Obi-Wan Kenobi with Noun Phrases describing him.

• a. In the NP the old Jedi, what position does the determiner the occupy? (Be sure to give the structural name; i.e., specifier, modifier, complement, or head)
• b.  What position does the Adjective old occupy in the NP the old Jedi?
• c. Draw a tree for this sentence. Be sure to show all three levels of each Phrase.

3. Now consider the sentence Luke met the old Jedi in the desert. 

• a.  If it is the meeting  that occurs in the desert, how does the Prepositional Phrase in the desert connect to the VP?
• b. What structural position does the Noun Phrase the desert occupy in the Prepositional phrase?
• c. If the desert is helping to describe the Jedi, how does the Prepositional Phrase in the desert connect to the NP?
• d. Draw a tree for this sentence, assuming that it is the meeting that is occurring in the desert.

4. Finally, consider the question Who did Luke meet in the desert?

• a. What would be the underlying sentence (i.e. place the words that have undergone movement in their original structural positions).
• b. What position in the overall sentence tree does what move to?
• c. What position in the overall sentence tree does did move to?
• d. What feature in the overall sentence tree motivates this movement?