Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Blind Men and the Elephant., sentence 23

The sixth was very blind indeed, and it was some time before he could find the elephant at all.

Who acts: sixth, fourth · What happens: be, find · To what, where: time, elephant, all

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 (sixth, 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 sixth	det
2	sixth	sixth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blind	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blind	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 blind	advmod
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 blind	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 time	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 time	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 time	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 time	cop
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blind	conj
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 find	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 find	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 time	acl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 elephant	det
18	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 find	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 find	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 blind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sixth			blind, indeed property	tree rules
2	is a	past	sixth	some time			tree rules
3	find	could	fourth	the elephant	all		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme at all=Asset

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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