Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Blind Men and the Elephant., sentence 17
The fourth reached out his arms, and grasped one of the elephant's legs. "
Who acts: fourth · What happens: reach out, grasp · To what, where: arms, one
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 (fourth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fourth | det |
| 2 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 reached | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arms | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grasped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grasped | cc |
| 9 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 grasped | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 legs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 elephant | det |
| 13 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 legs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 elephant | case |
| 15 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach out | past | the fourth | fourth's arms | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grasp | past | the fourth not said here | one of the elephant's legs | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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