Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Blind Men and the Elephant., sentence 11
He is not at all like a wall.
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Blind Men and the Elephant.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 all | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 all | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 all | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 all | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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