Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Blind Men and the Elephant., sentence 16
Anybody who knows anything can see that this elephant is like a snake."
Who acts: Anybody, elephant · What happens: know, see, be · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Anybody, elephant), 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 | Anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 see | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Anybody | acl:relcl |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 knows | obj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 snake | mark |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 elephant | det |
| 9 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 snake | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 snake | cop |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 snake | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 snake | det |
| 13 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | can | Anybody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | this elephant | like a snake | 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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