Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Blind Men and the Elephant., sentence 28

But any man with a par-ti-cle of sense can see that he is exactly like a rope."

Who acts: man, snake · What happens: see, be · 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 (man, snake), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	14 see	cc
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	10 cle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cle	det
6	par	par	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cle	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 par	punct
8	ti	ti	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cle	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 cle	punct
10	cle	cle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 sense	case
12	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cle	nmod
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 rope	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 rope	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 rope	cop
18	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	21 rope	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 rope	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 rope	det
21	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	any man with a par ti cle of sense						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	snake					like a rope; exactly 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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