Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Blind Men and the Elephant., sentence 29

Then the elephant moved on, and the six blind men sat by the roadside all day, and quar-reled about him.

Who acts: elephant, six blind men · What happens: move on, sit

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, six blind men), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 moved	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 elephant	det
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moved	nsubj
4	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 moved	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 men	nummod
10	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 men	amod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 moved	parataxis
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 roadside	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 roadside	det
15	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 reled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 reled	cc
20	quar	quar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 reled	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 quar	punct
22	reled	reled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sat	conj
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 reled	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move on	past	the elephant				then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	the six blind men				day	by the roadside	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by roadside=Location

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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