Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Blind Men and the Elephant., sentence 22
He is ex-act-ly like a huge fan."
Who acts: fourth · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fan | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fan | cop |
| 3 | ex-act-ly | ex-act-ly | ADV | _ | 7 fan | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 fan | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fan | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fan | amod |
| 7 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fan | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fan | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fourth | like a huge fan; ex-act-ly property | 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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