Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Blind Men and the Elephant., sentence 21

The blind-est man ought to know that this beast is not like any of the things that you name," he said. "

Who acts: est man, things, fourth · What happens: know, name, 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 (est man, things, 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	5 man	det
2	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 est	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 blind	punct
4	est	est	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	compound
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 know	nsubj
6	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
7	to	to	PART	_	8 know	mark
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 said	mark
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 beast	det
11	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 any	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 any	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 any	advmod
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 any	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 said	ccomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 things	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 things	det
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 any	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 name	nsubj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 name	nsubj
21	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 things	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 any	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 any	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 know	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	know	ought	the est man	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	name		the things	tree rules
3	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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