Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Blind Men and the Elephant., sentence 12
He is round and smooth and sharp.
Who acts: brother · What happens: be
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: who acts (brother), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 round | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 round | cop |
| 3 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 smooth | cc |
| 5 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 round | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sharp | cc |
| 7 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 round | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 round | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | brother | round property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | brother not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | brother not said here | tree rules |
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: «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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