Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Blind Men and the Elephant., sentence 27
This elephant is not like a wall, or a spear, or a snake, or a tree; neither is he like a fan.
Who acts: elephant, neither · What happens: not be, 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 (elephant, neither), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 elephant | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wall | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wall | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wall | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 wall | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spear | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 spear | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 spear | det |
| 11 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wall | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 snake | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 snake | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 snake | det |
| 15 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wall | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tree | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 tree | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wall | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 fan | punct |
| 21 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 fan | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 fan | cop |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fan | nsubj |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 fan | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 fan | det |
| 26 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wall | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | this elephant | like a wall or a spear or a snake or a tree and a fan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | neither | like a fan | 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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