Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Blind Men and the Elephant., sentence 30
Each believed that he knew just how the animal looked; and each called the others hard names because they did not agree with him.
Who acts: Each, snake, animal, men · What happens: believe, know, look, call, not agree · To what, where: each · 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 (Each, snake, animal, 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 knew | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 believed | ccomp |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 looked | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 animal | det |
| 9 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 called | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 believed | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 others | det |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 called | xcomp |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 names | amod |
| 18 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 called | xcomp |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 agree | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 agree | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 agree | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 agree | advmod |
| 23 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 called | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 agree | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | Each | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | know | past | snake | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | look | past | the animal | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | call | participle · passive | each | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | not agree speech: agree | past · do-support | men = man | with snake | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
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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