Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Blind Men and the Elephant., sentence 18

Oh, how blind you are!" he said. "

Who acts: you, fourth · What happens: be, say · 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 (you, 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 blind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blind	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 blind	advmod
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 blind	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blind	cop
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 blind	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 blind	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blind	parataxis
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blind	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 blind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you					blind property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	fourth						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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